Why do I have a photograph of a kitten illustrating today’s post? All will become clear. For now, we’ll call it research.
It’s been an exciting week for sales on Wendy Mitchell’s new book, What I Wish People Knew About Dementia. More on that soon.
Regular readers will know that I am Wendy’s ghostwriter, and if you missed it last week, you can read more about how we worked on her first memoir, Somebody I Used To Know (another Sunday Times Bestseller) here and here.
I promised last week I would tell you a little about the writing of this latest book, as it is slightly different, and it brings us nicely onto the subject of research.
Wendy’s first memoir was solely that — an autobiographical work of her life. The format took a little more thinking up, two narratives, a first and a second person, woven together, but both told chronologically in some way. I like writing books with this structure, I’m doing another at the moment this way too. But the other type I like to do, is the weaving t…