I have written a number of memoirs looking at my childhood and my life as an adult. In them I typically address a specific topic, such as car problems, and write about events on the topic that took place in my youth and similar events that happened to me as an adult.

My goal this year is to compile some of these in a book to publish this fall. Toward that end I have identified 13 stories which I have written that I will include in my book. Most of these stories were written for writing contests and have limited word counts. My book won’t have word count limits, so my next goal is to expand on the stories I have written. The plan is to add from 500 to 2000 words to each story.

The first story I worked on has gone from 1215 words to 2353 words. With the second story I am working on I have added about 300 words and I am still working on it. Ultimately I expect each story to have 2300 to 3500 words.