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The typewriter helps. I can make mistakes and just keep going. It lets me just write without being distracted - the rainy day keeping me in was also a good thing.

I am wary about doing it digitally. All my uni writing is digital, but the stuff that will last is the essays and papers that were printed out or published in hard copy. So that's why I chose the mechanical method. And like you my writing hand is so bad these days. My school teachers would be appalled lol. Cursive it might be but only vaguely...

I will have to think on the honesty thing though.

Maybe if I put an R18 on it, lol.

Good luck with that. I've just completed my second book of memoirs - the first book took about 10 years and the second only 6!

I published through Blurb.com in USA; it was very very expensive but I wanted them to look professional, which they do (hardcover with dust jacket and premium paper).
I have 4 copies of the first and 3 of the second, for my 2 children and 4 siblings to share (I lost 2 siblings in UK last year so only 1 left).

I had so much information collected over the years - diaries, journals, travel journals, photos, and family history, but it took ages sorting it out.
I was honest about some things but not others that will be my secrets forever. 

What motivated me to do it in the first place was realising how little I knew about my parents and grandparents lives, even though I spent some time with my grandma when I was young. So I wanted my descendants to know about my early life especially as I came to NZ from Uk in 1973. First book was about Irish family and my life until I got married at age of 30, second book about my English side of the family and bringing up children in NZ up to the time they left home. Will carry on with a third book but not with Blurb, just WORD.

At least I have lots of photos in them as I knew nobody would want to keep all the albums and boxes of them that I've collected. And they now know something of family history.
I can relax a bit now!