New Book Project - Contributors Welcome!
April 20, 2006
Dear Fellow Messies,
If you are a grateful recovering Messie who has come from a really cluttered way of life and now lives a happily organized one, we would love to know about it. You don’t have to be perfect, just happily improved.
Out of gratitude, you can help spread how you improved so others can get help as well. Your story will be an important and encouraging example of how people can change their messy way of life.
We have some really good and insightful writers in these groups. We need about twenty-five submissions of about three to five pages each. Below is a suggested progression of the story based on the pattern followed by the AA Big Book. Don’t follow it exactly so they won’t all be exactly the same. Just use the ideas as a guide.
I will edit and work with you if necessary. If you can do this, would like to hear something from you.
Warmly, Sandra Felton, The Organizer Lady (TM) Founder, Messies Anonymous
WRITING CONTEST - NEW BOOK PROJECT
Messies Anonymous Book
General pattern of chapters
Introductory Material - Reflections about the problem, your attitude about organization in general your background, profession, family relations.
Childhood, if appropriate
When it started
How you justified it, if you did.
How it developed, when you first noticed it became a problem
Incidents that happened and how you handled them What they led to. Name seveal at different eras of your life or the problem.
Your ideas of what caused it, the nature of messiness, your personality.
What caused you to want to change.
What you tried to do to stop being disorganized.
How you started to change. What do you consider the key(s) to success?
What changes have occurred.
Ups and downs, challenges of getting it done and of keeping it in order
Several incidents about the changes. How you feel, what people say, what you do different.
How your life is different
