fictional memoir

Hi all! My name is Nikki, 28, and this is my second time doing nanowrimo.. This year i'm writing a fictional memoir about a little girl who tries to kill her older sister and is then convinced she's going to hell and whips herself into a religious frenzy to avoid doing so. I'm writing it from the pov of her adult self and I'm thinking I'm going to be heavily influenced by Darcey Steinke's _Jesus Saves_ and by _The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time_. Character driven but not without plot. Sound mainstream? Would you read it? Thanks!

I would certainly read it - and will if you want to do a novel swap?! That sounds likea very interesting book, although I've only heart of the Dog in the Night Time - if you can pull it off I think it would be brilliant.

I hope to pull it off, only I have tremendous plot development issues. Always have. So we'll have to see! I'm planning ahead this year hopefully that will help. If I do manage I would like to do a novel swap! I've never done one, so that would be very interesting.

Sounds like mainstream fiction to me. I would read it for sure.
:D Good luck!

This is also my second year and I'm also doing a fictional memoir... weird. o.O

Mine is rather cliche' but it's about a man driving home for a funeral.

Does fictional memoir mean you're writing a memoir based on a fictional character, or does it include taking your experiences and writing them in a fictional way?

I want to write a fictionalized version of my pregnancy and what led me to placing my son for adoption, but I'm not really sure where that falls.

I'm writing a fictionalized version of the year 2004 and (changing names) basing the plot on that one year where this girl moved in next door to me and we were best friends for a single year and it was the best - and most exciting - summer of my life :)

I'm writing a fictional memoir this year too, though mine's firmly in the parody/satire/comedy genre. I haven't written in 1st person for an age, though, so I don't know how well it's going to go.

Nice to know I'm not alone. *waves*

I simply love the idea of a fictional memoir... I came up with an idea several years ago and just now putting it in words.

I guess I'm sort of doing this too. I'm doing a fictionalized version of a relationship I was in, but changing a few things.

I grew up in a rooming house. There will be much to pull from as I write a fictionalized memoir. It will start from the time we moved in and began renting out rooms - I was age 10 - until I reach 50,000 words, lol!

If it were well written I would read it. I fear that the whole main character being a kid (even if told from an adult POV) would be difficult to maintain interest.

That sounds like a great basis for a novel. I would definitely read it! Good luck!

Sounds like mainstream fiction to me!
It also sounds like a good idea, but I'm not too into religious stories.

This is my first year doing this project.

I am writing a fictional memoir: its the fictional character's memoir but is written like a novel. She's a young woman who is trafficked out of the country. It starts off with her background: family, school, previous relationships then moves into her being trafficked then rescued to later write this novel. The preface kind of raises the question of is it really her story, or just a story that she wrote. Its based on my graduate research on trafficking women.

Meh, wish I could do that. It'd involve a whole lotta worldbuilding, though. I mean, around the character.