COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 18, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Colorado author Wayne McFarland breaks memoir mold with release of a hilarious, often moving 27-story chronicle of life events, like shark fishing in (ones) underwear, getting shot or blowing town with a monkey. The memoir is \u201cTales From The Day\u201d (ISBN: 978-1645503347).<\/p>\n
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\nThe currently accepted memoir format, for authors not already famous, is to establish a narrative arc. This arc usually begins with a rendition of \u201chow life used to be.\u201d Authors then usually move on to their involvement in such things as a war, mountain climbing, illness or a troubled family life. A tied together, \u201cvignette\u201d memoir form has been considered a modern-day formula for publishing failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn general, memoirs really suck,\u201d begins author Wayne McFarland in his book “Tales From The Day.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not because they\u2019re badly written, which they often are, but because they\u2019re \u2018me walls\u2019 in prose. It\u2019s an eye-roller that every aging \u2018Honey I\u2019m Home\u2019 product of returning soldiers post WW II now thinks the world is desperate to hear about How Life Was. Really, no one gives a crap,\u201d says McFarland.<\/p>\n
Contending that life is random, unplanned, and often hilarious, McFarland recounts 27 life events \u201cthat all happened under the heading of \u2018oops.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
These \u201clife events\u201d include such humor filled chapters as \u201cThe Day We Pitched The Loan Shark,\u201d \u201cThe Day We Blew Town With The Monkey,\u201d and \u201cThe Day My Business Was Trashed By A Worm.\u201d Other chapters cover in short-story form moving tales like \u201cThe Day They Tried to Kill Us In Arkansas,\u201d and the losing struggles of a war veteran, \u201cThe Day Joe The Mo Fell Into A Hard Place.\u201d Surprisingly, these disparate chapters, when taken together, form an arc of experience and \u201clessons\u201d drawn, usually with humor, from seemingly unrelated, chaotic, and totally unplanned happenings.<\/p>\n
In spite of McFarland\u2019s departure from what is now pretty much accepted as the \u201cmemoir format,\u201d reviews have been excellent and reader support enthusiastic.<\/p>\n
McFarland says, \u201cWe live in an age now where people want to be able to delve into a book and get something solid out of it, chapter by chapter. Also, I have always believed that, given the choice, people would rather laugh than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Tales From The Day: Life changing events that truth be told all happened under the heading of ‘oops.'” is available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.<\/p>\n
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