Our 5-year-annivesery is coming up, and as a present, I thought of compiling a book of our relationship using blurb.com. I'm going to incoporate over 11 years worth of photographs in it, as well as letters and emails that have been written. It's going to be seperated into two parts - 'the story of us', and the 'scrapbook' area (the latter taking up most of the book). I'm going to write out how we met, became friends, dated, got engaged and so forth...the only problem is, I have NO IDEA how to begin it! We met in Sunday School when we were 8 years old, if that helps. Please, anything you can come up with will be GREATLY appreciated - something besides 'once upon a time there was a boy and girl'. Also, what point of veiw should it be in? I want our kids to be able to read it, so I'm not sure if I want it from my POV, because that leaves his thoughts out- but will it seem too impersonal if I do it from 3rd person? Please, give me ideas!
2007-03-07 16:54:13 · 6 answers · asked by Ames 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm writing our story as the beginning of the book - the photos and everything will come later. Almost as though the story is a prologue. I don't want it to be written as a letter to him, because I want it to be looked at as an actual story. I just don't know how to start off the introduction...
PS - he's actually written more letters and such then me ;-)
2007-03-07 17:48:53 · update #1
I want it to start from when we first met (8 years old in Sunday school, I was the new girl and I was instantly drawn to him, and despite him being so quiet I knew that he was going to be a big part of my life), catch all the important events in our life, and have the 'story' end on our wedding day. (I'll make a new book later on of our marriage). What is a good, catchy sentence/ paragraph to start it all off?
2007-03-07 17:52:15 · update #2
Don't assume that the 3rd person has to be impersonal. Most novels are written in it. Handling the 1st person is tricky, aside from the limited knowledge one can assume in the narrator. There's also a greater difficulty handling the tone, because the tone is a larger part of the presentation of the narrator's character and personality, while in the third person, some of this can be handled explicitly. You don't want to have to have the narrator describing herself, "I was a precocious young girl, with a flair for Nancy Drew books and multiple piercings." It gets sticky and brings in a lot of problems with the credibility of the narrator's self-knowledge. Even in such a specialized thing as you're writing, it would still be hard to make the narrative get off the ground. Go with the third person, and you'll be able to incorporate your husband's thoughts and recollections more easily, too.
2007-03-07 17:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by G-zilla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you can do this in several ways, depending on where you want to take it. You might wish to begin at the beginning and proceed to chronicle all the major events in your relationship. Or, you could begin with a brief statement about what the relationship means to you and move on from there. How about starting with a funny incident from your childhood together? You say you met in Sunday school. Do you think your faith had anything to do with your coming together? If so, then maybe you could start there. Or you could open with a couple of verses of personal poetry about the relationship to catch his attention if you are that way inclined.
I think it would help with the point of view problem if you used the first person for purposes of intimacy but interspersed it with comments of his that you can recall or even excerpts from/copies of his letters and e-mails so that they form part of the narrative. Problem is that, if the stereotype fits, there are probably more letters and e-mails from you than there are from him ;-)
Experiment. I am sure that the right thing will come if you relax and think of it as expressing your feelings on a very personal topic about which you know more than anyone else instead of being anxious about how it will turn out. All the best.
2007-03-07 17:36:41 · answer #2 · answered by buzzgirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-05 09:48:55 · answer #3 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you just start working on it and see where it takes you? This sounds by your description to be a work of the heart. Give your heart a chance to work on it...
2007-03-07 20:15:50 · answer #4 · answered by Ms. Switch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just...start at the beginning.
it'll write itself.
2007-03-07 17:01:40 · answer #5 · answered by dayday 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably lots of pictures
2007-03-07 17:03:29 · answer #6 · answered by shutup111 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋