Has anyone on here ever written a book about their addiction?
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Has anyone on here ever written a book about their addiction?
Good evening from the UK,
I hope that everyone is succeeding in winning their own personal battle against their demons,
For many months I've been writing down my feelings towards the beast that once had full control of my life, I've recently started to think about putting it into a story format and self publishing through Amazon.
Not to sell or become a millionaire from or anything like that lol, but so that I've got a published record of my story that I can one day leave behind for my family to read. It is only half complete at the moment as I've only 2 months ago manage to start "Taking back control" of my life.
The story is pretty basic and not to different from all of yours I guess, from being married early on at the age of 23 to my beautiful best friend and having 3 amazing kids, to having an horrific injury at work taking a year off injured, ending a promising career in the police force, the death of my mentor my grandma, 10 year downward spiral into alcholism, obesity and too many let downs to mention here and it finally coming to a conclusion to losing our business just a few weeks ago.
The good part about this story is that from 2 months ago when I finally took back control of my life, all of the pages ahead are blank and I can write in them whatever I want to. My family still love me just about, I've got 2 clean months under my belt with no intention to drink again ever, so far I've lost 2 stone and finally we are just in the process of relaunching a business without the hassle of my former self being involved.
Has anyone else ever done this?
Blessings,
Bruno.
I hope that everyone is succeeding in winning their own personal battle against their demons,
For many months I've been writing down my feelings towards the beast that once had full control of my life, I've recently started to think about putting it into a story format and self publishing through Amazon.
Not to sell or become a millionaire from or anything like that lol, but so that I've got a published record of my story that I can one day leave behind for my family to read. It is only half complete at the moment as I've only 2 months ago manage to start "Taking back control" of my life.
The story is pretty basic and not to different from all of yours I guess, from being married early on at the age of 23 to my beautiful best friend and having 3 amazing kids, to having an horrific injury at work taking a year off injured, ending a promising career in the police force, the death of my mentor my grandma, 10 year downward spiral into alcholism, obesity and too many let downs to mention here and it finally coming to a conclusion to losing our business just a few weeks ago.
The good part about this story is that from 2 months ago when I finally took back control of my life, all of the pages ahead are blank and I can write in them whatever I want to. My family still love me just about, I've got 2 clean months under my belt with no intention to drink again ever, so far I've lost 2 stone and finally we are just in the process of relaunching a business without the hassle of my former self being involved.
Has anyone else ever done this?
Blessings,
Bruno.
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Not I.... though I often have ideas about how recovery may factor in to the book (s) I will write.
Though I suppose I'd best get going, before books are gone the way of the eight track.
All that aside - we are ALL writing our story (if not our book), every day. Each sunrise brings another page, and we get to write its path.
Though I suppose I'd best get going, before books are gone the way of the eight track.
All that aside - we are ALL writing our story (if not our book), every day. Each sunrise brings another page, and we get to write its path.
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I did not write a book about my addiction per say, but I did write a book about my dysfunctional, yet quite interesting life of my first 29 years on this planet. I had a friend who wrote a screenplay about our shenanigans while in prison. I found it therapeutic and it helped me sort things out mentally.
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Originally Posted by Dee74 
I've already written a book. Look at my post count, lol 
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I wrote a book in 1998 titled Fate Lies...
Its a fictional autobiography written as a double entendre pivoting off the word "Lies".
Ive never submitted it, still not confident. 200+ pages. Ive toyed with the idea of using amazon publishing and of course rewriting it.
Its a fictional autobiography written as a double entendre pivoting off the word "Lies".
Ive never submitted it, still not confident. 200+ pages. Ive toyed with the idea of using amazon publishing and of course rewriting it.
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