Do you plan to write?

[Hearty Guy]

Do you ever plan to write a tribute to someone that has passed away? Or, have you written one already?

[TrishaAnn92]

Not to write a tribute as I haven't lost anybody who I knew a lot about and when I did I was too young to remember anything about them. I do have intentions to write though.

[Hearty Guy]

Although I do you enjoy well-written fiction, just on principle alone I prefer biographies autobiographies, tributes, memoirs, so on. I wish you much success and much satisfaction from your writing!

[Bibliophile97]

Well I've mainly only written because it's been requested of me. I wrote a story for Valentine's Day because I needed to bring something to the party, but I didn't have anything else. I wrote a story for my girlfriend because she lives far away and it was easier to express my feelings for her this way. But I haven't ever really written anything as a tribute to someone who's passed.

[npandit]

No, but I think it would be interesting to do this. Are you planning on writing one?

[Hearty Guy]

I wrote one and published it on Amazon as a Kindle e-book. It's about thirty pages. "Grandfather's Uncle" is the title.

[Jen319164]

Honestly myself i am not a fan of tributes or real life events i am not sure if this is a bad thing but it is just my preference and personally i would never write a book that i myself would not read. I am currently writing a fiction book though

[Hearty Guy]

Everybody has their preference that's for sure. I never thought I would write a tribute either — never crossed my mind. But then my father died when I saw how everybody was beginning to forget. My mother never wanted to talk about him for some strange reason. And things that he said and did were no longer fresh in my mind; I did not want to lose those memories so I started writing them down. A small book developed quite naturally out of doing this and organizing my thoughts. Everybody in the family has enjoyed reading about my father, and now a few hundred other people have read it too.

I would never want to do NOT read it again.

I assume anyone writing this kind of book would probably like to read it over himself/herself from time to time as one of the objectives of it would probably be to preserve and even amplify memories. I am sixty years old and I know my memory is not going to improve — starting to forget the things I put on my To Do list lately for example. You're probably way, way younger than I am.

[ALRyder]

That's actually a cool idea. I don't know that I could write a whole book though.

The most amazing teacher I ever had died just after I got out of high school, and I found an essay that he had written about his life someone posted online. He was a dang good writer, and his life had some interesting points so it had me hooked. It's kind of sad all the things you learn about a person when they die. For instance, I had no idea what his home life had been like growing up(his father kicked him out at 16), or the specifics of his job at Boeing before he decided to leave and become a teacher. There were a couple of stories I had heard at his memorial that I would have teased him about.

It would be interesting to write a tribute with a conglomeration of stories from multiple people. There are so many aspects to a person's life. I mean, how different is it being the child of someone, to being a sibling?

[Hearty Guy]

The book I wrote is called Grandfather's Uncle. It's about thirty pages long so it wasn't all that hard to write. Some people that have read it have said that through it they felt that they "got to know" my father very well, so it doesn't take much more than 7 – 10,000 words.

I published the book on Amazon (it's a ninety-nine cent book— I won't publish that link here because it might be against the rules) but it is a work in progress because I'm actually looking for other contributors to add their own tributes to it... which is amazingly just what you are saying about "a conglomeration of stories from multiple people." That is MY DREAM! Why? Because I know of no better way to circulate the story about my father than getting other people to write about their father (or any relative) that has passed away. It's not that difficult to republish each time a new story is added to the original book. I see it as a long term book project, a slow-moving but semi-viral pass – it – along collection of fine stories and tributes.

With self-publishing there is really no reason that so many loved ones need die that second death, you know, the one that comes when nobody alive remembers anything about you anymore and there's nothing written down anywhere.

You can also read my book on ReadWave.com where it goes by the same name and it will not cost you a penny. I haven't put it all up there yet but there are eight 800 word segments up so far. Let me know how you like it.

Thank you for encouraging me by independently coming up with the same idea. That was a WOW moment for me !

[Pratham143]

Yah I do. My Grandfather. I loved him. May he rest in peace.

[JessiFox]

I can't really imagine planning one (just begging for silly things like "premeditation" to be thrown around? lol ). I have written a few things in tribute to my grandfather. He was the only father figure in my life and passed away when I was young.

[tennent10]

Yes, I love to write. It's my true passion, I find myself forgetting to do things while I'm working on a story. Be it short, or an idea for a new book. I feel writing is just another way to express yourself and what you've been through, much like painters do through their art.