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Blog articles to Help You Tell the Stories of the Past
How to Write with Narrative and Scene in Your Scrapbook Page
By Debbie Hodge, originally posted on 24 March 2010. (Re-posted with permission) Narrative tells and summarizes while a scene puts the story of the page right on the stage, with concrete details, movements, and even dialogue. narrative Take a look at the journaling...
Captioning the Past: Using Photo Captions to Tell Stories
Scrapbookers have taken the concept of photo captions to a whole other level. Whereas most writers and bloggers don’t have the time to literally take a page (or layout) from their books, there’s no arguing that a creative use of captions with your photographs or...
What Font Are You? Choosing a Font
Who me? It depends. Choosing a Font What font I use depends on what I’m doing and what I’m trying to communicate. Whether I’m crafting or writing (which technically is also a craft), I’m communicating. There’s a lot of information out there about typography. There’s...
Home–A Five Minute Friday Post
Today's #FiveMinuteFridayPrompt: Home Though I've lived as long in my current house as the one I grew up in, my childhood home hasn't been replaced. It's in another state, fourteen hours away, and houses strangers. The neighboring houses are now likewise inhabited...
How to Write About a Friend
Writing about family members seems to come naturally, but many family history and memory writers struggle with how to write about a friend. Before we look at the how, let's look at why it's more than appropriate to write about a friend in your memory stories Don't...
Handwritten Memories Matter in the Digital World
Do handwritten memories have a place in the digital world? Of course they do! Writing your memories down by hand can be even more therapeutic than typing them. Plus, handwritten memories are apt to be particularly valued by loved ones; we all love seeing the...
Blogging Your Memories: To Blog or Not to Blog?
Varying Communication Styles In her article, A Company Divided: Bridging the Generation Gap at Work Through the Power of Communication, Bea Fields summarizes communications styles by Use of technology in communication, as a reader and as a writer, does have a strong...
Where to Find Historical Images to Illustrate Your Writing
Knowing where to find historical images can make us all better storytellers. They give stories a visual context words alone might not convey. That helps readers digest and understand your stories. (See also Why Context Matters in Storytelling.) (Note: This post was...
My Story: The First “Treasure Chest of Memories”
It was only after I stumbled over some of them that I started paying attention to my family roots. Now I spend a lot of my time looking for more of them. My Grandmother's "Treasure Chest of Memories" was a big part of that. My family tree looks nothing like the iconic...
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