For the last month or so, I've been writing a memoir. Unfortunately, I was told to check out a memoir called, “Running With Scissors” by Austen Burroughs to get an idea of how someone else approached writing one. Unfortunate because I found the story irritating. But it seems that an author will publish disturbing things because people tend to buy stories that are so.
I am also dealing with multiple sclerosis, and the various treatments associated with it. I have enough drama in my real life, and don't need more from someone else's true, but twisted tale of depressing memories.
I have never understood why people like horror movies for the same reason, I have enough of my own in my real life to spend money to see fictional horror. I just never found it entertaining!
Mysteries are fun, and I have had them in my real life. But I personally would prefer to write my happy memories.