If your life to date were a story...

[Dr_Strabismus]

What sort of story would it be? Would it be a fun read? Fascinating? A page-turner or a turgid epic?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It would be the most boring piece of text ever written, similar to an historic account of the life of a rock on the great salt flats in Utah.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

What sort of story would it be? Would it be a fun read? Fascinating? A page-turner or a turgid epic?

I wrote my life story.

I didn't consider it to be anything other than a long story that was pretty scatterbrained (though I found it interesting enough to write )

 

[scheherazade_79]

People would think mine was a work of fiction

 

[rgraham666]

It would be banned by the Geneva Convention as a weapon of mass destruction.

People would read it and their brains would shut down in boredom.

Sort of like the 'World's Funniest Joke' from Monty Python, except dull.

 

[Guest]

What sort of story would it be? Would it be a fun read? Fascinating? A page-turner or a turgid epic?

A funny and inspirational story of challenge and tenacity that would make you laugh ruefully, shout with glee, cry uncontrollably.

And there'd be lots of sex, too. *grin

 

[3113]

It would be a black comedy.

 

[Liar]

A tale of unbridled passion, dark secrets, one man's struggle in a world gone mad, deceit and treachery, love and compassion, guns, sportscars, explosions, champagne and acrobatic sex, drugs and rock'n'rollin all the way into the sunset, to infinity and beyond, may the force be with you, and drive safely.

Of course, I'd be lying through my teeth.

 

[Guest]

A tale of unbridled passion, dark secrets, one man's struggle in a world gone mad, deceit and treachery, love and compassion, guns, sportscars, explosions, champagne and acrobatic sex, drugs and rock'n'rollin all the way into the sunset, to infinity and beyond, may the force be with you, and drive safely.

Of course, I'd be lying through my teeth.

Hey - that's what I said - but you said it better.

Except about the lying part and the cars.

 

[rachlou]

My life would be a hokey soap on daytime TV - the highs, the lows, the angst, the occasional sex scene, the bad dialogue and the terrible acting. It's all here folks!

 

[English Lady]

It would be a tale of people, a tale about the characters I've met and made friends with, the people I've had long conversations with at bus stops and in supermarket queues. It'd be a romance, an erotic romance, with a spiritual overtone. It'd be as crazy and mixed up as I am

 

[Guest]

It would be a tale of people, a tale about the characters I've met and made friends with, the people I've had long conversations with at bus stops and in supermarket queues. It'd be a romance, an erotic romance, with a spiritual overtone. It'd be as crazy and mixed up as I am

Sounds like one I'd read over and over.

 

[cloudy]

It would be a black comedy.

ditto.

 

[English Lady]

Sounds like one I'd read over and over.

Awww, bless. thank you

 

[Grushenka]

What sort of story would it be? Would it be a fun read? Fascinating? A page-turner or a turgid epic?

Not so turgid, but epical, yes. Every life is a story, with unique beginnings, middles and ends, so I suppose it matters how it's told whether it will be fun, fascinating or page-turning.

I've not been here long, and don't know anyone outside their posts, but there are several people here whose life stories I'd guess are all of the above. And yours?

 

[Weird Harold]

What sort of story would it be? Would it be a fun read? Fascinating? A page-turner or a turgid epic?

Mine would be about the size of the phone book in a mid-sized city and rank just below that phone book on the best-seller list.

 

[harry87]

Probably wouldn't make publication

 

[JamesSD]

Assuming it was edited in the form of a Big Budget Biopic (Walk the Line, Ray, etc), I think it would be alright, although I'm still pretty young. No wedding scene yet, no kids. No affairs, divorce, etc. Some mild addictions, but none that I would suffer withdrawal from if I gave them up.

Mostly, it woudl be alright if it focused on the sex and was a softcore porn film.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Could I fictionalize it? Seems like a drama most of the time but I'd rather re-write it as a comedy.

 

[Harry Leg]

It was a dark and stormy night...

 

[oggbashan]

Mine would be in a selected series of posts in the AH.

Only the interesting bits would be included, but what is interesting depends on the viewpoint. All of us authors ought to be able to write incidents from our lives and MAKE them interesting even if they aren't.

For example:

'Today, 30 November 2006, I was sitting drinking a cup of tea in a workman's cafe in a fishing harbour. A fisherman walked in. His bald head showed deep indentations of old injuries, so deep that I could have pushed a finger tip into each depression. How was he injured? How was he treated for such massive trauma? How could I find out?...'

Og

 

[cheerful_deviant]

In 2002 a group of Japanese researchers calcuated pi to 1.24 trillion decimal places.

Even that book is more exciting than the book of my life.

 

[ElizabethWest]

In 2002 a group of Japanese researchers calcuated pi to 1.24 trillion decimal places.

Even that book is more exciting than the book of my life.

Sounds familiar. Mine would read like the human genome project.

 

[Munachi]

it would consist of all kinds of interesting and varying episodes, anecdotes, short stories, travelogues, that kind of connect to a story together... some funny, some serious... actually i think it would be an interesting read (if written well, and the embarrassing parts left out)...

 

[TE999]

Does mundane and boring sell?

If it does, then my life is a freakin' "Gone With The Wind".

Peace.