I’ve started a short-video series about how I made my book A Speccy Man Has a Breakdown. Episode 1 went up today, on Instagram and LinkedIn.
The idea: I had a breakdown a few years ago and turned it into a book – a micro-memoir, a memoir about a small part of a life rather than the whole thing. It’s my first self-published book after seven published “properly” with publishers, and I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed the doing of it – the collectors’ edition, the paperback going out now, a readership that writes back.
I teach memoir writing. So it occurred to me that showing how I made this one might be useful – for anyone thinking about their own book, and for me, as a way of paying attention to what I’m doing.
I’m calling it Micro-memoir, in public. No fixed number of episodes – I’ll keep going as long as there’s something worth showing, at least through to the next round of my Micro-Memoir course opening.
Episode 1: Instagram | LinkedIn
I’ll post each episode here as it goes out.