The life of each person is interesting in its own way. Your seemingly unremarkable childhood and adolescence will become a real story for your children, and for your grandchildren - a hoary antiquity. Write a book for them. It may also happen that your creation will be interesting not only for home people, but also for completely strangers. And then the book can be published.
It is necessary
- - a computer with a text editor;
- - old photos;
- - Dictaphone;
- - memories of parents, grandfathers and grandmothers.
Instructions
Step 1
Gather material for your upcoming book. To do this, you will have to run around with a voice recorder. If you want to write your family's story, interview as many relatives as possible. Ask them to recall the most remarkable stories from life, tell about household, school and production details.
Step 2
Remember all the most interesting things that happened in your life. It can be interesting holidays, memorable school lessons, games with classmates and neighborhood children. Many games have already disappeared from use. Remember the place where you lived then - for sure it looks completely different now. It may very well be that photographs or drawings have survived. Recall your most prominent neighbors. It can be a war hero, a famous worker, or just a colorful personality that the whole area knew. Make a short outline of your future essay.
Step 3
Think about the shape of your future book. It might just be a memoir. In this case, you can stick to the sequence that you like best. Events that happened very recently may alternate with memories of the past.
Step 4
Based on your own impressions, you can write a story, a novel, and a cycle of stories. Choose a hero. It can be both real and fictional, resembling either you or someone you know. Remember or imagine how the hero behaves in certain circumstances. Even a fictional character must be convincing and show himself in a way that is characteristic only of him.
Step 5
Think about the person from which you will narrate. Various options are possible. When a work is written in the first person, the reader involuntarily associates the hero with the author. The second-person narration creates the impression that the author is talking in person with the reader. When a writer talks about his hero in the third person, he seems to be looking at what is happening from the outside.
Step 6
Decide if your book will be divided into parts and into which ones. Small stories do not need to be divided. In a story or novel, each part must correspond to some period of the hero's life or an important event in his life.
Step 7
Decide if your book will be divided into parts and into which ones. Small stories do not need to be divided. In a story or novel, each part must correspond to some period of the hero's life or an important event in his life.
Step 8
Think about how your story might end. The usual ending of a fairy tale or legend is fine. But you can come up with something of your own, telling where the main characters moved, what changed in their lives, whether or not they succeeded in what they dreamed of.
Step 9
Edit the book. Try to forget that you wrote it. Introduce yourself as a reader. Don't be afraid to put your thoughts down on paper. Do not assume that you need to write in any special language. Write the way you usually speak, but try not to have parasitic words and frequent repetitions. Maybe before finishing the work you will remember something else that you would like to tell your readers about.
