As the few of you know, I'm going to be writing a memoir soon. Two thoughts come to mind, the first being that this sounds pretty cool and the second is that I'm not sure it'll interest anyone at all. I like to think that I'm a pretty interesting person but when you get right down to it, I'm really just your average normal guy. This memoir experience has been fun, recalling different memories from my life but nothing really blows you away. But then again that's always been me. I always do just enough to get by, or I go out and do the things I consider fun but refuse to go any further. I'm more than content without anything crazy happening in my life because crazy usually leads to problems.
I hope that whoever reads the memoir I write thoroughly enjoys themselves, after all we are writing for our readers. I hope that they are able to connect and feel what it is that I'm writing. Feel the pain of scratching a cornea, feel the nauseating fear of sitting in a dentist's chair, and feel the panic that ran through my body as I was about to be handcuffed and taken to jail. It's up to me when I'm writing this to make sure that I convey those emotions for my readers to feel. Obviously though in that process I'm not going to share every gruesome detail of the dentist or eye story because not everyone likes to read about that. I'm sure no one wants to visualize all of that when they read this.
Until that day comes you'll have to just sit patiently and wait.
Monday, February 17, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
Memoir Ideas...
I have recently been given the challenge of coming up with 3-4 ideas that I would include in my memoir should I write one. First off, I'm not so sure that I have lived a life worth writing about in my near 27 years on God's green Earth. Then again I could just be holding on to ideas that I don't want to share with people, let alone the possibility of complete strangers finding this. But that being said here are my ideas:
1. I know that I would definitely write about a trip to the dentist that I made when I was 6 maybe 7-years old. This is the visit that shook my view on going to the dentist, this is the reason why every time I go in for something as simple as a cleaning that I get sick to stomach. Honestly, I'm almost 27-years old, I stand 6'6" tall and weigh about about 220-230 pounds. There's absolutely no reason that a trip to the dentist should make me feel like I'm about to die and act like a scared child.
2. In school I was usually a model student when it came to behavior and grades. That's why no one ever believes me when I tell them as a junior in high school I was almost expelled and arrested. Yeah, let that sink in for a second... expelled and arrested. I was so close to being arrested that before some quick thinking saved my bacon, the school officer was literally pulling out his handcuffs to place me under arrest.
3. The time I scratched my cornea comes to mind as an interesting story. But I'm not so certain that sharing what I did that night that led to me scratching my cornea would be appropriate to share. Then again maybe it is. In a short summary, I learned that after a night of celebrating my birthday at the bar it might not be a wise idea to try and take your contacts out.
I'm going to try to think of a fourth idea, if I do I'll add it on as a comment. If any friends have any ideas obviously leave it the comments section. Some of you have lived these moments with me, why not re-live them?
1. I know that I would definitely write about a trip to the dentist that I made when I was 6 maybe 7-years old. This is the visit that shook my view on going to the dentist, this is the reason why every time I go in for something as simple as a cleaning that I get sick to stomach. Honestly, I'm almost 27-years old, I stand 6'6" tall and weigh about about 220-230 pounds. There's absolutely no reason that a trip to the dentist should make me feel like I'm about to die and act like a scared child.
2. In school I was usually a model student when it came to behavior and grades. That's why no one ever believes me when I tell them as a junior in high school I was almost expelled and arrested. Yeah, let that sink in for a second... expelled and arrested. I was so close to being arrested that before some quick thinking saved my bacon, the school officer was literally pulling out his handcuffs to place me under arrest.
3. The time I scratched my cornea comes to mind as an interesting story. But I'm not so certain that sharing what I did that night that led to me scratching my cornea would be appropriate to share. Then again maybe it is. In a short summary, I learned that after a night of celebrating my birthday at the bar it might not be a wise idea to try and take your contacts out.
I'm going to try to think of a fourth idea, if I do I'll add it on as a comment. If any friends have any ideas obviously leave it the comments section. Some of you have lived these moments with me, why not re-live them?
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