It makes no difference what religion or spirituality essence you select, but writing a life story for the religious or inspirational markets is in demand and expanding its need for sharing life story experience in the form of books, stories, or featured articles and columns.
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What the religious or inspirational markets are looking for is sharing what you've learned from your mistakes or experiences, how you arrived at your choices, and how you've grown and were transformed, gaining wisdom that everyone can share. By sharing your experiences and life story, readers will learn how you made decisions and why, what wisdom you gained from your growth or transformation, and what made it possible for you to grow and change and become a stronger and better person. The stories you'd write about would be those universal messages we all go through, such as rites of passage, dealing with the stages of life in new ways, finding alternatives, and how you handled the challenges.
The religious and spiritual or inspirational markets want stories that give them pictures and choices and show how you solved your problems. The reason people read your story is to find out how to solve their own problems and make decisions. Give them information they can use to make decisions, even if you write fiction. Have some authority and truth in the fiction, particularly about facts and historical information.
People buy your story to make choices, including choices in the later stages of life or choices in growing up and making transitions. As people move from one career to another or from one stage of life to the next, they want to read about how you made that passage in time and space, and what choices you made.
Source: WritersWrite.com
Award-winning biographer and novelist Anne Hart holds lifetime community college teaching credentials and a Master's degree in English/creative writing from San Diego State University and a B.S. from New York University. She has written 51 books, booklets, plays, articles, stories, and learning materials and focuses on writing biographies, novels, historical romances and suspense, autobiographies, diaries, and books on career development as well as scripts and new media learning materials. Hart has been writing books full time since 1963 as her primary occupation. Her recent books include: Writing Your Life Story Commercially for the New Media and Print, Winning Resumes for Computer Personnel (Barron's Educational Series, 1998), and cyberscribes.1: The New Journalists (Ellipsys International, 1997). You can reach Anne at: anne_hart@hotmail.com
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