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How did you wean off Metoprolol?
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I think memoirs are marketable and have been in the past, but you didn't write it as a marketable piece it seems to me. You wrote it as a way to express your feelings and issues, and writing is a good way to get them out of your system. I have about 35 years worth of journels. I do ponder their fate. I am getting closer to the idea of taking them to a blm campground this summer with a fire pit, and having a goodbye fire. I'd like to let go of the past though I have plenty of cool drawings in them. I'm not a writer.
I'm 71 with an annoying heart problem (afib etc) and want to explore completion with all my life's loose ends. Therefore, I just made a donation to an antique store of misc antiques and some small paintings. I have given many misc objects here and there. My main purpose now is to place valued objects in the right place. Three years ago I sent ancestral photos to Historical Societies in Indiana and New York. They were appreciate to receive the donation for there collections. Jung says the end of life should be a process of completion. Not that I'm going to heaven tomorrow, but placing these things holds meaning.
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@healthytoday Perhaps I misled you - I did initially have a book agent during my sister's long illness (cancer) who encouraged me to write a novel. I had already published a story in a NY magazine. She obtained an editor at Simon & Shuster who read and critiqued the memoir, liking it, but wanted me to lengthen it and add more characters. I was redoing it for about 6 months or so and was unfortunate as the editor had to retire and care for her father in Charleston during the time I was at work building the novel. Then too
my agent retired so I was whammed at all ends with getting to a publisher. Just to say, I both wrote it for distraction and I did intend to
have it published , if possible. Also, from New York publishing people I've touched base with - first novel memoirs are tough sells - I was encouraged to work on the mystery novel which I had already started. They are popular now. We all have different stories, I guess.