
Forgiving Myself for Trying to Save My Marriage
"I'm glad you're working on forgiving your ex-husband," he began. "But have you considered forgiving yourself?"
That major problem is word count. What's so important about word count, you may ask. Industry standards is the answer. Every genre has a word length that is acceptable to traditional publishers. If I want my story to be published by a well-respected publisher...and I do...I must adhere to the standard. A short memoir is about 65,000 words. A long memoir is about 90,000 words. Mine is about 46,000, so
my work is about twenty thousand words short of a short memoir. Yikes!There are various ways I can approach this problem, and I'm in the process of figuring it out. More about that later.
Blessing,Note:
If you're in the process of writing a memoir, I'd love to hear about your challenges and breakthroughs. Or if you'd like to recommend a memoir to me and my readers, I hope you'll do so."I'm glad you're working on forgiving your ex-husband," he began. "But have you considered forgiving yourself?"
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"I'm glad you're working on forgiving your ex-husband," he began. "But have you considered forgiving yourself?"
"No one teaches us how to support a friend in peril. Whether it’s after a divorce, a miscarriage, a job loss, or the death of a child, people mean well, but the wrong words can come burbling...
“It was my own personal 9/11. A beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky, birds chirping, children playing—when out of nowhere disaster struck with six words uttered by my husband: “I...
An email I recently received: Hi. My name is Sara. I'm in a lot of emotional and physical pain. My story is a warning—I don't want other women to go through the same kind of abuse I'm now...