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  by Jill 3 months ago

  Welcome, BritMex. I appreciate your candid introduction and am also sorry to read about your brother. His suicide is obviously a very raw pain for you. I do hope that you will achieve what you are aiming for in your writing.
  
  Best wishes. Cloud is a supportive and informative place to be.
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  by MinxieAD 3 months ago

  Welcome BritMex. I am sorry to read of your brother. I think that to write such a book you have to be very open, so why not start with a bit of detail about yourself and how you were affected by the terrible event. It's just a thought. Good luck with it and I hope you find support on the Cloud. Minx
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  by BritMex 3 months ago

  Allow me to introduce myself...
  
  I am what you might call a writer of the academic variety. I have written a PhD and published articles in various journals - like this one: http://independent.academia.edu/HeatherSutherland/Papers/356613/It_Ought_To_Be_A_Dream_Archives_and_Establishing_the_History_of_BBC_Light_Entertainment_Production_1975-87
  
  I have also attempted a first foray into scribblings of a no-footnote-required persuasion, in the form of an updated-when-marking-permits blog, following my move to Mexico with my husband a year and three months ago: http://britishmex.wordpress.com/
  
  I have never been particularly confident about my writing, fully aware of my deficiencies and with a habit of frequently descending into cliché, but I now feel I have reason to work at and improve my practice of it. Just over 2 months ago my brother took his own life at the age of 27. He was a person for whom reading and writing were passions, possessing skills that were both inspirational and enviable. Following his death, focus and concentration on reading and writing proved problematic, but the importance of 'words that resonate' has been significant. I have, as a result, rapidly come to the view that it is important to write about the experience of living after this trauma. Writing appears to be not only necessary as a release or a means of paying tribute, it also becomes a cause. I want to write something meaningful and intelligent for brothers/sisters in similar situations, though the aim is not a 'guidance' or 'help-you-through-it' book - rather, the aim is simply to share the experience of a sibling in grief after suicide, in the hope that it can tell others who have the tragic misfortune to find themselves in the same position that they are not alone. This is the aim.....I have notes....the problem is how to begin, the dreaded opening sentence....and then the whole structure after that! I am hoping that, through the use of one of the Writer's Workshop courses and through feedback I may at sometime receive from your good selves, I can regain focus, organise and ultimately achieve my ambition.
  
  Thanks for reading (if you reached this point!). Any comments/ suggestions/ advice welcome! I hope you are all writing well....
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  by Rob 3 months ago

  Sorry to see you have been through a tough experience. Your photo does not look like it was shot in Mexico, looks more like England! Welcome to the site (from another neophyte - also from England but now in Crete) . . . I hope you find the writing support you are looking for.
  Rob
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  by Tony 3 months ago

  Welcome to the Cloud, BritMex