My Children, My Life

My Children, My Life is an extensive multi-generational family story told through the perspectives of multiple family members. The story is based on true events. It tells the Runquists' story, a rich story about a family overcoming hardships and striving to make their dreams come true, a story about teaching children responsibility and allowing them to be responsible. It's a story about starting a small business, a Wisconsin dairy farm, with little to their name and raising their twelve children on that farm. The story reveals how the farm molded the family, while providing the opportunity and freedom to achieve the potential within themselves, to maximize their development, to inspire creativity and to allow the exercise of self-expression. My Children, My Life reveals the Runquist family’s thoughts, allows one to feel their happiness, anger, and passion; and to experience their achievements and failures. The story is an exposé on the human spirit. It’s a love story, an immigrant’s story, an entrepreneurial story, a coming of age story, a story of abuse that crosses multiple generations, and the impact caused by not being able to prevent or terminate pregnancies.

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Authors A.I.'s Marlowe Analysis

Overview - My Children, My Life is an extensive multi-generational family memoir told through the perspectives of multiple family members. The Memoir's raw honesty about family struggles, child labor, and survival during economic hardship gives it substantial emotional weight and historical value.

Premise / Elevator Pitch - A young woman traumatized by childhood tragedy marries a farmer and raises twelve children on a Wisconsin dairy farm, struggling against poverty, harsh discipline, and the demanding realities of agricultural life while her children learn resilience through hardship.

Potential Readers - My Children, My Life's authentic voice and unflinching examination of family life under extreme pressure create compelling reading that will resonate with audiences seeking genuine stories of American resilience.The story will appeal to readers interested in American agricultural history, family dynamics, and Depression-era rural life. My Children, My Life's raw honesty about family struggles, child labor, and survival during economic hardship gives it substantial emotional weight and historical value.

Archetype - My Children, My Life is most similar to The Quest story archetype.

Genere & Story Type - My Children, My Life is primarily a family memoir with strong elements of historical nonfiction and agricultural literature. The story also contains elements of the following:

• Social history
• Coming-of-age narrative
• Depression-era literature
• Rural American memoir
• Multi-generational saga
• Working-class narrative
• Trauma memoir
• Agricultural lifestyle documentation
• Regional Wisconsin literature
• Immigrant family story

Theme Analysis - The primary theme of the memoir centers on family resilience and survival under extreme economic and social pressure. This theme is represented through the family's determination to maintain their farming operation despite constant financial hardship, health crises, and social isolation.

Secondary themes include:

• The cost of survival: How the family's focus on economic survival affects individual emotional development and parent-child relationships.
• Intergenerational trauma: The way Agnes's childhood experiences shape her parenting methods and family dynamics.
• The changing nature of American agriculture: The transition from traditional farming methods to modern commercial agriculture and its impact on family-based operations.

Word Count - My Children, My Life contains about 116,244 words. While there are no hard-and-fast rules about minimum and maximum story lengths, there are industry traditions and reader expectations. Here’s a quick reference for typical word counts by genre:

• Adult contemporary fiction: 70,000-90,000 words
• Literary fiction: 80,000-120,000 words
• Romance: 50,000-90,000 words (mostly 70,000-90,000)
• Science fiction/Fantasy: 80,000-120,000 words (longer for epic fantasy)
• Historical fiction: 80,000-120,000 words
• Mystery/Crime: 60,000-90,000 words (cozy mysteries are shorter)
• Horror: 80,000-100,000 words
• Thriller: 70,000-100,000 words
• Westerns: 50,000-80,000 words
• Young adult: 50,000-90,000 words

For genre-bending works, the word count should typically align with the genre that has the higher range (e.g., romantic fantasy would follow fantasy’s 80,000-120,000 words). In some cases, indie authors choose to serialize a story — say, three fantasy novels of 40,000 words instead of one novel of 120,000 words.

Trigger Warnings - My Children, My Life contains extensive descriptions of child physical abuse including beatings with various implements, forced labor of minor children in dangerous conditions, detailed accounts of farm accidents resulting in serious injuries, descriptions of animal deaths and slaughter, references to childhood sexual threats, domestic violence between spouses, emotional abuse and neglect of children, detailed descriptions of extreme poverty and food insecurity, and accounts of children being forced to work instead of attending school. The memoir also contains descriptions of difficult childbirth experiences, infant and child deaths, house fires and other traumatic accidents, and harsh living conditions that some readers may find disturbing.