Five men standing in front of the Chaparral Country Club members wall. Each man is holding a trophy. Nita Sweeney's father, Gene Buddelmeyer, is fourth from the left in blue pants and a gray shirt.
I recently found this newspaper clipping of my small-time golf champion father and the other men who placed in the tournament. Seeing the pride on his face makes me so happy. #memorialmemoir #booksaboutfathersanddaughters #booksaboutmentalhealth #booksaboutgolf
Middle-aged man in work clothes, leather gloves, and a black hat driving a John Deere garden tractor in a large field near a wooded area in Licking County, Ohio. The man is the father of award-winning author Nita Sweeney and is a central character in her next memoir, MEMORIAL: The Year My Dad and I Stopped Keeping Score.
If you want to learn more about my next book, join my newsletter. This is my father. The book is set during the last year of his life. The book is not about him. #memorialmemoir #grief #mentalhealth #cancer #careerchange #recovery #familes #addiction #dogs #linkincomments
GOAL: I'm on track with my training. Need to maintain. Would still like to add another day with a bit more mileage, but I'm also in the ramp up to a book launch so that's probably not gonna happen. I'm okay with that. Stay tuned for the cover reveal! #dualgoals #runchat #booklaunch #memorialmemoir
Brag: Best I've got is that I'm still at it. Missed my long run yesterday because I'm back on book deadline. Hope to get it in Tuesday or Wednesday, probably at the indoor track because of the snow and such happening again here in central Ohio. No blizzard though. #runchat #memorialmemoir
Between compulsive refreshes of the #BM100 feed, I drafted a copyright page, revised the "About the Author" page, and attempted to wrestle four pages of acknowledgements into something an editor won't kill me for. When you work on a book for 20+ years, there's a long list to thank. #memorialmemoir
This snow-covered yard beyond a sidewalk the view of a water tower is the view from the office of bestselling author Nita Sweeney, currently working on a memoir about recovering from mental illness while her father was dying of cancer.
Bestselling author Nita Sweeney with her family. Her current project, MEMORIAL, is about her mental health recovery while her father was dying of cancer. Sweeney is on the left next to her father, mother, brother, and sister. They are wearing golf gear and holding golf clubs.
One year ago, I rented this office so I could focus to revise the #fatherdaughtermemoir I began in 2004. Today, I sent the manuscript to the copy editor. Please clap. #memorialmemoir #writingcommunity #booksky #staytuned #familymemoir #memoir #golfmemoir #mentalhealthmemoir
A6: By this time next year, I hope running has helped me remain relatively sane through another book launch. Stay tuned #memorialmemoir #runchat #writingcommunit #booksky #fatherdaughtermemoir #golfmemoir
Tweet by Rebecca Lavelle (aka @EldritchMayhem) which reads, "If you're tempted to seek supernatural assistance to finish your manuscript, please remember, do not summon demons for developmental aid. They're much better at copy editing. The devil's in the details.
Now she tells me! #booksky #writingcommunity #amediting #memorialmemoir #amrevising #amwriting #Iwritememoir
Meme by bestselling author Nita Sweeney with a blue to light green gradient background that reads: What do you write? MEMOIR (sometimes disguised as how-to/self-help) ABOUT (how I navigate life in spite of) MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES.
In case you wondered and also to remind myself because I met a deadline Monday and now I don't know who I am. #booksky #writingcommunity #memorialmemoir
If only.
#runchat #booksky #memorialmemoir #writingcommunity
Printed manuscript with colored sticky flags on many pages.
I might have a thing for #officesupplies. Anyone else love them some post-it notes and sticky flags? #writingcommunity #booksky #memorialmemoir
Hey writers. Who's your reader? I write for the young girl in me who felt broken, scared, alone, and lost much of the time. When other people relate, that's a bonus. It's wonderful. But pleasing them isn't my motive.
#memorialmemoir #writermanifesto #booksky #booksaboutmentalhealth #writingcommunity
Manuscript of Nita Sweeney's upcoming memoir, Memorial: Our Last Year on the Links-a father-daughter memoir. On top of the manuscript is a square ceramic coaster that reads "all you need is love and a good book."
Earlier today, I walked into the living room to see that Ed had put this appropriate coaster on top of the manuscript to prevent the pupperina from eating pages. It takes a village to write a book. I'm so grateful for these lovelies. #booksky #memorialmemoir #writingcommunity #dogsky #authorlife
Printed draft manuscript of Nita Sweeney's golf, cancer, and father-daughter memoir, Memorial: Our Last Year on the Links.
I've been busy. She's done for now. We'll see what the developmental editor thinks. #booksky #writingcommunity #memorialmemoir #golfsky #fatherdaughterbooks #booksaboutfamilies
An office wall covered in sheets of paper taped to the wall with painter's tape. Also an office chair, a small table with a notebook on it, and a large desk with three notebooks, a phone, and a water glass.
Things are getting serious over here. #memoirmonday #memorialmemoir #amwritingmemoir #theresabookintheresomewhere #booksky #writingcommunity #scrivener #outliner #painterstape
Incredibly delicious everything bagel sitting on a tin foil wrapper next to a large paper cup filled with a "sleepy mud shot" and wrapped in a "Colin's Coffee" sleeve.
Today's "office." Yes, talking to a writer friend about the book I'm working on counts as writing. #writingcommunity #booksky #coffeeshop #everythingbagel #colinscoffee #memorialmemoir Thank you @yesitscolin.bsky.social .
WRITING PRO TIP: During the day, my phone is off, stowed in my purse which is locked in a desk drawer. That's it. That's the secret. #booksky #writingcommunity #memorialmemoir #wrtingtips #writingsecrets
Laptop, eyeglasses, wireless mouse, and a printed manuscript sitting on a gray table overlooking a large glass window. Hanging in the window is a large stained glass tree.
Today's office. #amwriting #booksky #writingcommunity #memorialmemoir #library #stainedglass @columbuslibrary.bsky.social
Large peppermint mocha cup sitting on a Formica table next to a manuscript, a quiver of different colored pens, a tablet of paper, a printed spreadsheet, a stack of papers, and an empty egg bite sleeve. While this is further evidence that the writer is making progress, she continues to spend too much time taking photos of her work and posting them on social media.
Today's office. #booksky #authorsky #writingcommunity #memorialmemoir #mentalhealthbooks #fatherdaughtermemoir #golfmemoir #familydynamics
Daytime view out a sixth-floor hotel room window looking over an Ohio suburb. Right inside the window is the printed manuscript of the book that keeps trying to become MEMORIAL sitting on a small table next to a tablet of handwritten notes. A quiver of different colored pens and a pair of glasses sits between them. The author who should also be at the table is, once again, not writing but instead taking photos to post on social media.
I'm home now and I miss yesterday's office. #writingretreat #booksky #authorsky #memorialmemoir #writingcommunity
As the survivor of recurrent #Takotsubo episodes, I should minimum stress. So, I'm revising #MemorialMemoir about my father's death from lung cancer, my near-suicide, and my subsequent psychiatric hospitalization and treatment. You know, light-"hearted" stuff. #punintended. #cardiacrecovery #booksky
Everyone & no one:
Me: It's not that the book isn't done, it's just that it needs more words in some places and fewer words in other places. And some of the words that are there are in the wrong place. #amwriting #revision #memorialmemoir #booksky #writingishard #authorsky #writingcommunity #iykyk
Gray sky above. Brown and gray suburbs below. View out a hotel window in central Ohio. Evidence that, once again, the writer is avoiding actually writing by taking pictures and posting things on social media.
It stopped snowing in central Ohio, but we're still "in the envelope." Gray all the way up. Perfect day to hunker down, remember being on a sunny golf course with my father, and write about it. #Ohioweather #amwriting #booksky #authorsky #614authors #golfmemoirs #fatherdaughterbooks #memorialmemoir
Who else's been in the #psychward? Revising part of the #memoir which mentions the 6-inch hair dryer cords. Do they actually manufacture those dryers just for #mentalhospitals or are they modified? Same with the "mirrors" that are shiny plates of metal. Grateful & curious. #memorialmemoir #booksky
