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[Hergiswi]

theoretically anyone could write a memoir right, but how important do you have to be before anybody would actually care? like if i published a memoir right now (notwithstanding the fact that i'm only 34), i can't imagine it would ever make it to publishing. and if it did, nobody would buy it. but should that prevent me from writing one anyway? are our lives only valued by how much our experiences can be commercialized? what if somehow my memoir could benefit someone, whether a future family member, or some rando who happens to pick it up at the local library?

[Matthew]

Intrinsically: Obviously, if writing a memoir intellectually pleasing and cathartic for you, then it's worth it.

 

Extrinsically: I think it's potentially worth writing, if you have a family that you're relatively close with and who would be interested in reading it.

[Moosh]

It's actually the inverse. If you're wealthy and famous, it's awfully presumptuous of you to think I care about your life story. Sorry buddy, you just aren't that guy.

 

If you're just some random guy who decided to write a memoir it's more likely to have relatable experiences in it and be worth a read, until of course it takes off and you become known in which case see the first point.

[Disciple]

My grandpa wrote a book/memoir about 5 years before he departed,

 

well no one read it and

 

it was distributed to all grandchildren,

 

I still have not read it but I have it

 

I keep thinking I will read it but then I don't

 

My other grandpa also wrote a memoir about his time in the wilderness I have not read that either...

 

Perhaps your post will inspire me to read these things at long last.  When I say I didn't read them its not totally true, because I did read the first 1-2 pages when I was much younger, and decided not to read on.  So, you know, first few pages are very important, and if you don't connect, well the problem was actually that I was too young to appreciate or care back then.  That said the first few pages did not grab me back then.

 

Ya should def try to read both of those.

 

I think the value lies mostly in communicating your thoughts to a younger fellow family member.  Perhaps you could teach them youngins a thing or two, or perhaps you want to brag about your knowledge or sexual conquests lol.

 

Interestingly tho I am playing a ZC quest made from a guy who has now departed and his quest lives on.

 

Maybe my grandpas was not using the medium that my nintendo generation required lol...

 

you could really write a memoir at any age but people probably won't read it unless the believe you have some wisdom & (a lot of) experience with life.

 

If you are dead what good is commercialization going to do you.  I don't think that is the usual reason people write memoirs.  Perhaps a few of them might think it will benefit some family members if it sells a lot.  That's pretty shallow and it still won't do you any good in the afterlife.  Or perhaps it will if you believe that it will who knows... in that case I guess your life would be only of commercial value (you sold out)...

Usually isn't it often other family members or other greedy toxic people who fake write those, for profit memoirs tho

Edited by Disciple, 08 March 2025 - 03:23 AM.

[klop422]

I mean, publishing short stories is done by all sorts of unimportant people. If that story just happens to be based on your own life, what's the difference? As long as it's an interesting read.

[Shigeru Miyamoto]

I think maybe I should write a memoir! Maybe I can talk about all of my times working at Nintendo. And developing such games as Zelda 1, Zelda 2, Zelda 3, Zelda 4: Link's Awakening, and most important, Metroid 1 and 2!

Actually, there are several biographies about me on Amazon. Maybe I can write one myself, and have it only readable on the Nintendo Switch 2?