NF or memoir would be my best guess. Hire a ghost writer.

Any suggestions to those of us who have valuable information to share based on lived experience? Writing is not something I ever planned to do, but ‘writing for my life’ is all I have done now for the past 4 years. Some have said you need to write a book and a PhD in English told me I can’t even write a sentence.

I also had this guy my in-person critique group (has folded). He was a great writer of the word side, and supposedly an agent was interested once he fixed the manuscript (not sure if this was true, general politeness on the agent’s side, or the writer lied). But he didn’t have to time to read, which showed in the story, because he had no story. The result was that he’d been revising it endlessly. He was always the first one to volunteer for critiques. He’d dutifully type all the comments and then come back again for another critique with the same problems. I didn’t care how he fixed the problems! But it was frustrating to spend the time critiquing it and see nothing change. The other writers reverted to praise for the quality of the words, and I finally got fed up and refused to critique him any more. One day, he had a meltdown and revealed that he didn’t care if it got published and that he was endlessly rewriting this monster of a book to get back at the government agency he worked for. He didn’t have time to read, bragged about agents wanting to publish his book, but didn’t want it to be published so he could get revenge at where he worked?!