Robbie’s Inspiration: Book Release Tour for The Winding Road: A Journey of Survival by Miriam Hurdle
I’m over at Robbie Cheadle’s blog for Day 5 of The Winding Road launch tour. I talk about how I wrote my memoir. Please head over to join me for the discussion.
Robbie has a new children’s book Haunted Halloween Holidays releasing soon. You can find out more about this delicious book while you’re there.
Thank you for hosting my launch tour today, Robbie. I’m thrilled to be here to share my new book with your friends.
During the launch tour, I want to talk about memoir writing. Here is my topic for today.
How did I write my memoir?
Collecting data
During my fifty-three weeks of the cancer journey, especially the six months of full-time bio chemotherapy, I was so sick that all the days blended in together.
Emails – As soon as I found out about my cancer, I emailed the updates to my family and friends. They emailed back to show me their support. I saved all the emails.
Records – I kept all the medical records in a binder with tabs to organize the doctor’s referrals, doctor’s appointments, visit summaries, insurance authorizations, testing instructions, testing results, lab results, treatment schedules, and discharge summaries.
Journals – Whenever my head was a little…
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I am amazed at the details you include in your book, Miriam, so I found this very interesting.
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A wonderful post, Miriam, about a powerful book and woman 💜
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Thank you, Robbie.😍
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No surprise that your approach to writing this was so organized! Clicking through…
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I love the word “organized,” Jacqui! I can see it in my granddaughter Autumn. When she organized her things, my daughter and I looked at each other and smiled. It seems to be natural in the girls in my side of family. Do we see things in a form of diagram?? 😃
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love it. Both of your books are in my cart… who knows when I’ll read with the wedding and computer glitches but whose counting… 💖🙏
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