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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Awesome story!!!
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Call it a
personal perfect storm. We matched background, likes and beliefs. He trusted me. He also had good evidence that I could do the job.
I will also state that I earned my money. I worked hard on that book and I made more money on it for the time I spent than any other writing I have ever done. Of course there was the carrot of the guaranteed payday.
If anyone wants to start writing memoirs, I suggest that you pick a relatively familiar historical figure that has virtues that you admire, but one that isn't as well covered as others so you can put in new embellishments, and write first an article for a magazine about them and try to get that published, and then fill it out to book size, though I suggest 200 or so pages not 400. (The goal of a magazine article may play a big part in who you pick. That it is published is a real selling point.)
I would further suggest that you don't write about someone that you have to criticize.
When you advertise as a memoir writer, then you can show that article and that book as ample evidence of how you would write favorably about person.