Oh, heck yes. More of a soap opera really.

I can't remember but I doubt it.

Oh yeah.....more about the people around me....than me. :0) Ie: My mother was married FOUR times! She met ALL those men by posting wanted personal adds in the newspaper or computer dating. My sister does mean irresponsible things...then calls wanting sympathy for her victims. My father was a chef/alcoholic/country club manager that rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous. My brother would start a business then sell it for the BIG companies stock, then the stock market would crash, making his stock worthless....repeat. His last business "he" wrote a "how-to" book about it. Available on Kindle. smile ♥ Then there's my husbands side of the family....

LOL Parts of it for sure...but other parts the reader would yawn and put it down.

No. My mother's was, and she wrote parts of it (she was a superb writer), but I wish she had gotten it all down. There was French nobility involved, as well as a shipboard encounter with Marlene Dietrich.

On another forum, several years ago, several people wrote The Story of My Life. I did that. Lots of ups and downs. I don't think it would be of interest to the general public, but the forum members seemed to like it.

I wrote Bayou Tails, which I never finished, and should go ahead and add to it, about animals that I rehabbed. Several people said I should publish it, but I never intended to.

Like bookwoman, my mom’s life was far nore interesting than mine. Even at 92, I’m learning more about her childhood in Nazi Germany. It’s not a unique story, but the bits and pieces I get are fascinating to me. She did write a brief autobiography a few years back; the few pages are a good overview to pass down the line but are far from satisfying.

My life is not particularly noteworthy with the exception of some personal struggles. I’ve dreamt of writing a self help book which could be colorful with anecdotes, but first I need to successfully apply the principles to other areas I’ve not yet overcome, for credibility.

Yes, definitely! But I am an extreme introvert and a keeper of secrets.

I could but it would be so depressing nobody would want to read it.

So. Much. Drama. Yes, I could write a book. Maybe a series of books. Especially about the last nine years since my son met his now ex girlfriend. And that saga continues....

I suppose I could write a book...if I could remember what happened...but my memory only worsens with age...and much of it I'd really rather not revisit, so there's that.

It would only be of interest to myself. :)

I've had a rather ordinary life and I hope it stays that way to the end. I suppose there were segments of my life that were somewhat interesting and people wouldn't be bored to death reading about. Like Annie, my memory isn't what it used to be; I'm not sure I could remember all the details, and some I wouldn't want to remember..

My book would even bore me from the first page on.

My life is boring and that’s the way I like it.

The few times we have had excitement have involved serious health scares for various family members and I can do without more of that. I thank God for calm, ordinary days.

People have told me for years I should write a book about teaching middle school and high school. Good stories. Important stories, and just "I can's believe it, it is so stupid" stories. But all that, too, is common for teachers. I am no writer. I think the late Erma Bombeck could do the stories justice though.

Oh Gosh No!

The Beatles, "All The Lonely People".

Yes.

Heck yes! I survived the 1960's and 1970's. My Dad led a very intresting life as did my mother. I have a couple books started on their lives and a few short stories relative to my life. For example I once had a lovely private dinner with Thurgood Marshall and his family.

I agree with Flannery O'Connor. She wrote stories about rather ordinary people, but some had encounters with psychopaths, and that created some drama.

If I were going to write about my life, it would have to be a series of short stories, and I think they would appear rather disjointed and pointless.

At one time I considered writing a pilot for a TV sitcom based on my experiences in the high-end furniture industry, but I would have had to name names, I think. My boss hired a ghost writer to help her write her autobiography, but it never got finished. I think it would have been a good read.

Several of my friends that I knew in San Francisco have written autobiographical books, and if I did write about my own life, some of it would be repeats of what has already been written. I did buy their books, however, and did enjoy reading them and remembering the stories.

I think my life has been interesting only anecdotally, but at least there is that. If I thought I could write something inspiring and uplifting, I would do it. I have considered writing stories similar to James Thurber's.

My father used to tell stories about his life endlessly, and when he was in his 80s, my sister tape recorded many of them, but I never found them interesting - more annoying than anything else - and I would not want to repeat that.

Yes. But I'm not done living yet. I would have to be the last one standing and then there would be no one left who would understand anyway.

DD was once assigned to write a short, non fiction paper in college. She wrote of a recent, at the time, amusing to us, adventure we'd had. Her instructor kept sending it back to her noting it was supposed to be non fiction, remarking she had a wonderful talent for fiction.

Mi vida loca started early. My 9th grade English teacher was the first to mention I should write a book. You've heard of the term 6 degrees of separation. My best friend tells me I live in a world of minus 1 degrees.

My life as a nurse, maybe, but probably only interesting to another nurse who has their own interesting/crazy stories to tell.

Not really. If I were tasked with it I could come up with some short stories, anecdotes of weird or funny situations I have been in, and a few terrifying or dramatic. In my job working with truck drivers for over a decade,I have had endless amounts of sometimes unbelievable conversations with them. Some hilarious, some infuriating (or would be to most i think. I tend to roll my eyes and move on) I have posted about a few of them here. But my life overall has been average and uneventful, and that's okay with me!

I would rather write a cookbook. Or a comic book!

A book can be written about any life. A more relevant question is, would anyone want to read it? For most everyone, the answer is No because the life and experiences one has are never as interesting to others as to oneself.

Some suffer from the syndrome "the older I get, the more awesome I was".

My life has been low key, no drama, which suits me fine. It takes talent to lure a reader in to your story -- many of you here have demonstrated that. Don't sell yourselves short! :-)

I could write some pretty interesting stuff (to some) about the work that I did, but will not.

I wrote an autobiographical short story when I was nineteen that was published as science fiction. I had sent a copy of the story to a pen pal in Pittsburgh, and he submitted it to the science fiction magazine that published it, without my permission.

I did not get mad, but I felt it was rather strange to be published as science fiction. I had several poems published when I was a teenager.

I've often thought that anyone working as a beautician surely has enough material for several novels -- maybe serials, like Dickens.

There's plenty of material for a novel within any person's life story. The trick is knowing how to WRITE the story.

I'm too boring. I have a family history book I'm writing that is a work in progress. People who make the newspaper a lot, tend to have have led rather interesting lives. I couldn't compete with the rest of the family.

Nope. I have had a regular, normal small town life. A quiet life with very, very little drama and I'm grateful for that.

Honestly? Yes, but I wouldn’t do that to my kids🤣. My hippie years that led into my Florida beach girl years. . . a lot of great stories there. I still managed to get my degree, hold down a great job in medicine. And then, I married my sweet DH and became a very proper doctor’s wife, a great mom, school volunteer, room mother, garden club leader, etc. Most of my friends and, for the most part, my kids, have no idea, though! Oh, the stories I could tell . . . but won’t😉.

I think many of y'all are way too modest. I have read with interest the accounts of many of you about diverse subjects, including breeding water lilies, how life was 80-90 years ago, cooking experiences, and of course (may I mention a name?) Lars and his stories about fashion, pizza, and other diverse subjects but with an interesting flair.

Plus, many here have introduced us to ongoing stories of beloved pets, beloved or unbeloved family members, work mates/minions, and have returned sometimes for years or more, giving pictures and updates. We interest one another enough so that many of us have been in this group for decades.

Much fine fiction concerns ordinary people with little drama in their lives, Only plot driven fiction requires lots of drama and action.

I am not a writer and in my old age find it difficult to bring myself to tackle a book. After retirement, I did a genealogy search on my background and did find enough material to write a genealogy account, but probably won't. I will leave my findings to a younger member of my family and he can write the book, maybe. I did find that genealogy was a great way to learn early US history. It came alive for me as I found connections between my family with the formations of this country.

As an example, one of the items I found was that my male ancestor was born in Wales who cane to the Virginia Colony in ca 1737. He acquired a bout 500 acres from a land Baron and was listed as a Planter (that would be a plantation owner). His property was surveyed by a young George Washington. That property is now part of the Quantico Marine Base. About 1737, he began divesting this property and removed to Halifax county, VA and established a plantation of 430 acres. A few years later, Pittsylvania co was organized out of Halifax.

He passed away in the 1770's and had at 6 sons. All of these sons were in the Revolutionary War. After this war, these sons scattered to west of the Allegheny Mountains following the horde of land hungry settlers. The settlement of these lands followed a pattern. As Andrew Jackson (and others) cleared a region of Native Americans, that land was surveyed and settlers moved in. The story continues . . . .

Among my family search, I discovered that the state of Arkansas had 2 capitals for a short period. It was during the Civil War and the second Capital was to have been the town of Washington, in Hempstead Co, Arkansas. When it became evident that the Union Troop were about to take Little Rock, a group of Confederate sympathizers hastily grabbed records from the Capital in Little Rock and fled to Hempstead Co. There, they laid out the town of Washington with the thought that it would be the Confederate Capital during and after the war. It did not happen, but the evidence can be seen today. Washington is a small burg on an open prairie and as you enter town, the main thoroughfares are super wide.

It has been said the the best stories are the ones written about real events or based on the writer's experience. I have found this is true for me. I think that one thing we oldersters can and should write about is occurrences of major events in our lives and best way we know to handle those situations. For example, how did you choose your marriage or life partner? What made you decide this is the one? And now that you have had a lifetime of experience, did you make the right choice? If you were to do it over, would you do something different? What advice would you give for handling this event? What would you look for?

Mine would be titled "Do As I Say, Not As I Do!"

Not hardly. It might put you to sleep though.

Mine is for sure book worthy.

Mine could only be a cautionary tale.

Nita AZ from the KT wrote her life story and shared it with KT members years ago It was so interesting I read it for days on end

Only in my dreams. I have some of the most vivid dreams. And sometimes they have huge backstories to them that I wake up remembering in vivid detail. Otherwise my life is dull and as quiet as I can possibly make it. I live it up in my dreams :-).

Nope. Even I would find it boring, let alone anyone else.

My life would be a psychology text book. Titled "An Outgoing Passive Introvert All in One".

As a retired writer and a newspaper editor I have probably written the eqivalent of 40 or fifty books. About me, no, but about things I have written about in rural communities, perhaps.

Yes, i do have a book! My son and DDIL signed me up for it, so for about 48 weeks I was sent a question about my life. At the end of the year they gathered a bunch of pictures and had it published! 5 copies, 1 for us and 4 for our 4 kids. It took a lot of work for my DDIL. She proof read, organized it and everything else. Bless Shirleys heart. It turned out great!

No. Maybe -- BIG maybe-- a graphic novel

Maybe a pamphlet.

In my family the joke is ”it will be labeled fiction”

kathyg, it sounds like you're describing the Storyworth product or something like it. I received this as a gift from my kids.

It probably can be anything those involved want it to be. For me, it's not so much an autobiographical effort. The questions submitted by my kids seem to be more about my personal likes and dislikes, opinions and reflections on particular topics rather than travelogues or stories about past events in my life. It amuses me to think about whether the motivation behind the gift was their interest in capturing my thoughts or, much much more likely, an outlet for me to be amused while thinking and documenting them.