Christopher Bennett

Memoir Reflections

Chris Bennett

A Bit of Fun

i couldn’t resist creating this quote. Not that I’m biased. 🙂

It’s a Wrap – For 2022

My memoir is in the final stages of being published after a very hectic 2022.

This year I focused on getting it done as I was fortunate to have time to do so. It was certainly easier to write in stretches of days as opposed to snatching time here and there over the past eleven years.

I’ve already started my second memoir by preparing an outline in my journal, and intend to spend at least two days a week next year writing it. By the end of 2023 I hope to have a reasonably cohesive narrative, which will be fine tuned for publication in 2024.

Why am I writing a second memoir?

Because my readers of the first memoir told me they wanted to know what happened next and I’m silly enough to follow their advice. 🙂

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All Systems Go!

I put in a huge effort last Sunday to finish my memoir draft and email it to my copy editor.

The deadline was the following day and I worked fourteen hours, finishing the job twelve minutes before midnight.

She is now working on the draft and will email it back with corrections in two to three weeks time. Judging by the sample copy she did before I hired her, the end result will definitely be worthwhile..

Next Monday I’m meeting with my cover design and layout professional for some preliminary discussions.

My schedule for publishing my memoir is;

1- Work on the copy editors suggestions in January

2- Meet with my cover designer and layout person again late January for final instructions and decisions

3- Publish the memoir – probably around March

4- Become a best selling author and rich – I wish.

It’s exciting that after eleven years of working on my memoir it’s almost done.

I did say never again but I should have reallised that one should ‘never say never’. I’m about to start my next memoir and it too begins in Fitzroy – just after where my first memoir ends. The theme is on basketball and my life surrounding that sport.

Looks like I’m doomed to be a writer. 🙂

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