I recently had the honor of authoring a guest post for the beautiful website of Katherine Dell, a talented author and very kind woman.
Katherine is “a writer, a storyteller, and a dreamer of big things,” I knew soon after we met on Twitter that there was a natural kinship between us.
Fostering a community of readers and writers, Katherine features guest writers on her blog regularly and for my post I chose to write about writing my story.
From the website of Kathering Dell, here is an excerpt of “Telling My Story: One Tale at a Time – Guest Blog By Libby Atwater.”
Read the full post on Katherine’s website – CLICK HERE
“I was stunned by the e-mail I received from a Canadian editor in December 2003:
“From a technical writing point of view the manuscript was not bad at all. You are a very good technical writer… Perhaps technical writing is your niche.”
The message referred to the book I had just written as a ghostwriter. After completing this challenging project, I was so upset I considering giving up my craft of the past fourteen years—helping others tell their life stories.
Then a post from a member of my professional organization piqued my interest. “Would anyone be interested in joining a memoir-writing group? If so, please contact me.”
Joining the group and writing my own story would give me the chance to prove I could write. I signed up immediately in hopes that telling the story of my youth would lift my spirits and also help others who’ve experienced great loss. I had no particular audience in mind. At the time I never dreamed that it would take nearly ten years and many rewrites to tell the story that I’d wanted to share for over forty years.”
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