So you're just out of college, have no money, no insurance, and you're facing the worst job market since your parents graduated college nearly 30 years ago. You have a way with words and spent most of your college career using them to get yourself into and out of more misadventures than Jake and Elwood Blues did back in 1980. Somewhere between bong rips and paying your mother the $400 you owed her for bailing you out of jail the week you got back into your home town, you had the idea that you might be able to make a dollar or two by writing your memoirs and selling them to a publisher.
Good luck with that.
No one will go so far as to tell you that your story is anything less than 100 percent unique when they send you a rejection letter. In fact, chances are good that your rejection letter will be a form deal. On the other hand, the friends of yours who decided to get you to send out that six-hundred-page manuscript about your sex life and bong-constructing escapades, aren't actually the people who have to read the scrawl you've passed off as an entertaining autobiographical slice of your excitingly conventional college life when you're sending out your manuscript to outside publishers. They might, however, be your primary inspirations and your most loyal readers.
Luckily, if you're determined to write your memoirs, the only thing you have to do is begin writing them. You can worry about the long list of rejectors after you've told the story, as clearly as possible, about the time you accidentally gave your sixteen-year-old sister a pot brownie when she was visiting you during her junior year Spring Break. The real risk will be soon after the stories you've put together as memoirs are read by your parents.
To get more help on writing your memoirs check out this guide on memoir writing.
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