Occasionally on this blog I will post an announcement that I receive that I feel will help you get to your goals of writing a memoir or a life story. I want you to have the best information. If you see something, you can always bring to my attention too. The goal is document your story for future generations. I have no financial interests in the workshops listed below.
Just heard a story on NPR Saturday Morning with Scott Simon about Anne Frank and whether it is literature. The interview explained without out a lecture of why it is important to write your story.
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As you think and get ready to start to writing it is important to decide what you will be writing. Is it going to be a personal history or life story? Or are you going to write a memoir?
Here are the definitions from my desk top dictionary for these key words: Memoir is a [...]
It is one story at a time. One story after another to write but if you don’t start it may never get done and to me that is even more scary. Genealogy will say when you were born and when you died but not who you were.