I am thinking about writing a sort of autobiography-novel-memoir type of book. Do people like reading these sort of things?

The reason you feel so lost and empty, is because you need God, He is the only one who can fill that hole in your soul. Writing a book, about yourself, won't help.

I will pray for your salvation.

They might but you gotta know how to present your info. I'd recommend pretending for the most part that you are writing a journal article. You may write a lot of words in contrast to it but you should write from a third-person view regularly and seek to prove what it is that you learnt in general lines first and only then relating it to your life. Good luck!

If your message has fired you up, write your book. There are many memoirs about people who have done praiseworthy things and had adventures that make us couch potatoes sit up and think of getting involved. There is room for others if they are interesting and well written.

That assistance in the water crisis in Kenya sounds interesting, and timely too, considering the weather is not what it used to be - floods in Ontario and forest fires in B.C. have got me worried about water.

You might not get a large, enthusiastic response for your story; but it's better to write it and share your insights than regret that you had put it off or did not do it.

People enjoy reading books that are well-written, that make you eager to keep turning the pages. The actual content of the books is less important than the skill of the writer. If you can write your story so well that people will read it and rush to tell their friends all about it, then go right ahead.

There are thousands of 'This is what happened in my life, and what I learned from it' stories. Lots of them are fascinating, lots of them are dreary. It ALL depends on YOU and your ability to make your own story stand out from the many others that at first glance sound very similar.

I will add only that someone who genuinely feels his life story could 'change the world' doesn't usually waste time asking whether anyone would be interested in reading such a book. They sit down, on fire with their vision, and don't rest until the book is finished and its message is being read around the world.

You want to write this book: then write it. Nobody can decide for you.

Ah yes, Autobiography of a Civil Engineer. But if you want to write it then have at it, it is your dime, as they say. The old saying is that a great actor can make you cry by reading a phone book. Great writing is like that, too.

No.

It depends, these events sound rather boring on their own. They might be interesting if you have particular insights, which aren't just "I did some cool stuff."

As an example, I just finished a memoir, but it was written by a female reporter in Afghanistan and Pakistan who had a lot to say about that war and also had experience writing, beyond the half dozen undergrad courses the typical engineer took which required papers. Even so, it took second place to the novel I took home on the same day.

Frankly, your stories sound less interesting than the guy I know who worked for the WHO for twenty years, more on the level of virtually every middle class college graduate these days who seems to be able to afford to travel more places before the age of twenty-five, then I did before I was forty.

You went to Nepal, so did that chick who wrote Eat, Pray, Love.

So what do you have to offer?

If you pick the proper genre. It would be a 'novel'.

People do indeed read this sort of thing--if it's well written.

The risk involved is that while this is true, and you were there for every moment, that doesn't translate into a story that's compellingly readable. Writing well takes a lot of time to master, so if you are serious about this, you need to be in it for the long haul. Your first draft is likely to be abysmal even if to you it looks pretty good. Your third will be better, but still not good enough.

It takes about a million original words, or 10,000 hours of writing, to get as good as you're going to get. Your peak will be higher if you take classes and receive qualified critique.

There's a reason people hire ghostwriters.

Your story isn't that unique from anyone else's. And the truth is, unless your a celebrity or gone through a major historical event no one is really going to be interested in reading this. It's not very interesting. It's good you try and help people but I can think of a lot of these stories that were more interesting to read like Brooke Ellison or Liz Murray. They weren't famous but they had stories worth telling or they had a small amount of fame due to something they had achieved. They'd been through something really life changing. Yours is dull in comparison.

I'm not being mean just giving my honest opinion and you can ignore it if you want.