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Sneak Preview of My Memoir

The one that self-destructed after five days. But I’ve now re-released for this List!

Annie Trevaskis
4 min readJul 20, 2024
A serious female has a post-it note stuck on her forehead and looks as if she is thinking about a memoir. Bright yellow background.
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OK. I’ve got my title: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK ¹

This is easy.

[Approximately 24 hours later]

This is hard. Should I make a plan?

[Approximately two weeks later]

I can’t come up with a plan. Instead, I’ll make a picture of the book because then I shall be halfway to writing it. I’ve read visualisation works like that.

Picture of a white book with title in black that reads: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. By Annie X
Created by AI and me. Mostly me. Don’t ask how I did it because I’m not technical like that.

[Approximately three months later]

Visualisation doesn’t work. Someone else said the trick is to make tiny bits of progress every day. I know. Perhaps I should just start writing. And edit it later.

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK¹

By Annie X

[Page 1. Or maybe the Preface. I don’t know. I’ll let an editor figure that out.]

Let me guess. You are in a bookshop, and the title has grabbed your attention. You are a bit of a rebel and don’t like being told what you can and cannot do. YAY. So you are…

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Annie Trevaskis
Annie Trevaskis

Written by Annie Trevaskis

I came, I wrote, I conquered. That last bit might not be true, but at least I am putting up a good fight.

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