Why Do We Write Our Life Stories?

The first reasons to ask the question as a motivational tool, helping you complete your work. If you can identify why you are doing a project, you are more likely to complete that project. “Just because” is not a good omen that your project will be completed. So why is important to you to complete it. Life stories or Life Reviews can take a long time to complete so you want to insure the work gets done. . . . → Read More: Why Do We Write Our Life Stories?

Life History or Family History is HOT!

PBS has been running a show for the last few years from Henry Louis Gates called Faces of America and now NBC is running a show on Fridays nights called Who Do You Think You Are. All these shows on family histories are making the topic hot and part of water cooler dialogue. All family history starts with you. . . . → Read More: Life History or Family History is HOT!

What You Write Depends on Your Mood…

List a group of facts that could be part of any one’s day and you write about them and you will notice that you mood and attitude of life reflects greatly on what you write. This a different kind of trigger; look at an event that happened in the last year, list the facts. Write about it as if you were writing about it that day. Write about it as you look back on the event today. . . . → Read More: What You Write Depends on Your Mood…

The Road Taken

Most writers lament the road not taken. It brings us into a loop of should-as, could-as, would-as. But I want to celebrate the road taken. . . . → Read More: The Road Taken

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