Christine “Ink” Whitmarsh is a memoir expert who helps authors write standout books. She is a bestselling author, most recently of her memoir “The Power of the Curve” – described as “an excellent read for those struggling to find their way.” Christine hosts the daily author podcast “Your Daily Writing Habit.”
Vroom Vroom Veer Stories
- Grew up is Auburn, MA a small town near Worcester; the kid in the basement writing stories; Dad was a Boston sports writer and mom was a business owner
- Christine was the CEO of her high school, she did all the “jobs” of the students, yearbook, school play; all the teachers and staff knew Christine could get this done
- Great stories from the Hollywood years; including the poker face sledgehammer, The Dude in Real Life and Flaming Gypsy Dancers
- At age 16 diagnosed with scoliosis of Spine, but put off surgery until age 19; the surgeon said she had a 1 in 3 chance of; neck down paralysis, death, or be ok; she did all three in order.
- Decided to be a nurse instead of writing and studied nursing in college and became a nurse because she needed a job to make money; learned that she like listening to people’s stories more than being taking care of people
- Went to Hollywood to study acting; but mom suggested she put out an add to be a typist to type papers for students; the father of a student saw her ad and called her to help him type “notes”; then she helped him ghostwrite his book
- Now, when people ask her to ghost write their memoir; once they start working together people realize that Christine is actually coaching them to write their own memoir.
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