Memoir question

[Susan B]

I appreciate what you're saying. I guess I felt like I wasn't asking if these books were marketable.

If I had bought your first book at a seminar, and was interested enough in your story to seek out the second, then I suppose I wouldn't want to read a lot of the same (or similar) passages.

When your stories intersect, I would keep on writing it from the perspective of the second story (teaching), rather than referring back to the tumultuous emotions you felt when you wrote the first one (although I appreciate that both were occurring simultaneously).

[Lea Zalas]

Greg, has the story of your wife and son been in the news recently? A few days ago I read an article about a mother and son with cancer; the mother having recently passed away.

[greg winick]

That was not us, thank goodness. Columbia University Hospital wants us to do a commercial for them. My son's case was the focus of a number of published medical journals, and so have certain surgeries my wife has gone through. About 19 years ago, Fox News did a one hour special about us. (They kind of exploited us. It's in the book.)

[Kitty Foyle]

greg, could you manage to stick some of that in your query -- maybe down at the bottom as an "afterthought"?

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[jayce]

Hey, greg. Someone came across this link (maybe you saw the post) http://wherewritersmeet.proboards.co...ay&thread=1183, which is your story. You posted there under the handle "frogger", which is cool enough. The question being asked is, are you somehow connected to a new Writers.Net member who's now posting under the name "Frogger17"?...or is that a freaky coincidence?

[Kitty Foyle]

Glad you brought that up, jayce. We were talking about it in the CT forum...which of course is restricted to only those who've posted 100 times or more.

(And yet somebody called Gypsy, who registered today, was able to get access to one of the threads over there. Talk about weird!)

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[greg winick]

I did post my question on three forums. I only got one response over at wherewritersmeet. I noticed the frogger17 name too. Is someone playing games? Maybe. It has nothing to do with me though.

[jayce]

It has nothing to do with me though.

Thanks, that's what we figured.

[Author Pendragin]

I wrote and published a memoir that dealt with one part of my life, and then I started writing a different memoir that dealt with a completely different aspect of my life. I have reached an area where my two stories have intersected. I know this sounds kinda weird, but is it OK to take similar passages from one memoir and use them in another?

Any thoughts?

Dude, it's your memoir. Why are you conflicted on how to tell your story?

[greg winick]

I think my question was legitimate. Just curious if anyone else has had this issue.