Pills Anonymous: Adding to the Problem

"Pills Anonymous – The Book
Guidelines for Story Submission

The Book cannot be completed until

YOU submit YOUR Story

Story deadline December 1, 2011

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Dear Potential Authors:
First, some important background information about the Pills Anonymous (PA) book, now under development.

1. Format of the Book.

- The PA Book Committee looked at the main texts being used by most other major 12-
step programs to create the concept of a combined textbook/study guide to help members
integrate the Steps and Traditions into their own lives.
- The main chapters of the book will each be focused on one of the 12 Steps or 12
Traditions.
- Each chapter will start with an explanation of that Step or Tradition and then be followed
by two or three short (under 1,200-word) stories. These are not complete stories about an
individual of the sort you find at the end of AA’s “Big Book.” They are shorter stories
illustrating how the author came to understand that Step or Tradition and/or how the Step
or Tradition has worked in the author’s life. Stories will not identify the author. See the
short example of this style of writing at the end of this document.
- Those stories will then be followed by a list of self-examination questions – much as you
would find in many 12-step workbooks – about that chapters Step or Tradition.
If you would like to see a 12-step textbook very similar in format to this, review
Al-anon’s “Paths to Recovery.”
- Note – longer stories about the lives of PA members will likely be accepted at a future
date for use in other PA materials.

2. Requirements to be a PA Story Author.

- Authors must have been clean and sober for at least six months at the time of story
submission (we’ll take your word on that, no “PA Police” checking up!).
- Authors must be willing to give all rights to the story as submitted to Pills Anonymous, to
include the right to use the story in other PA communications materials, on- or off-line, at
the discretion of PA.
- Authors do not have to be experienced writers; the Story Review Committee will strive to
leave authors’ styles intact, communicating privately with an author if the Committee
would like to make any edits to the story as submitted.

3. Story submissions must:

- For the Committee’s use only, have the author’s full name, snail mail address, email
address, contact phone number(s) and sobriety date as the first item on the first page of
the story submission, ideally centered on the page.
- Be from 500-1,200 words long. A full page of single-spaced type is approximately 500
words.
- Be submitted as an MS-Word document using Times Roman, 12 pt font and 1” margins.
- Be submitted via email only to stories@pillsanonymous.com. The exception would be if
you cannot work on a computer for any reason and cannot find someone to assist you, in
which case hand-written submissions will be accepted."

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I just want to know, because of following in the footsteps of Bill Wilson .... Where's the Stock certificates and the mistress to leave 10% of the proceeds too?

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