Some of the questions might get you to start thinking about your life as an adult. This is a great place to start to write your life review or personal history. If you are working on a memoir you might start it at this place to work forward or back. Good Writing—
Its that time of year again, its back to school time. And that means many things to many people and it means great writing opportunities especially if your are working on your memoir or consider your self a life story writer.
In the dog days of summer, many think writers take the days off. We need to tell the our stories of summer past and now. It just means we can write about things that are fleeting thoughts and later rewrite to make some sense of it all.
Some people spend their time in the present tense so they only mention relatives as they encounter them in their story. Some people start their stories with the previous generations before starting their own stories. There is no better way or even right way. It depends on how you are telling the story.
I write this column for most of us that who want to write a book for your families not financial success. These life stories might be commercially successful if marketed but that is not the reason for writing them. It really is to add a connection with the family members that they might have a sense of who came before them.