Follow Friday Friends in High Places
Whether you’re searching for ancestors, recording your family history, or writing your personal and family stories, friends come in handy. Commrades in arms (or pens or keyboards) will keep you inspired, grand you a fresh perspective and provide an enthusiastic...
Car Memories and How to Write About Them
If there’s something that can come close to cotton candy’s ability to evoke the past, it’s car memories. We love to remember the cars we used to drive. Of course, car memories inevitably include the adventures we had in them. This comes to mind as my sister is getting...
6 Great Ideas for Displaying Sentimental Items in your Home
Wouldn’t you like to honor loved ones by not only holding on to memorabilia, but by displaying sentimental items in your home? It’s hard to know what to do with sentimental items. We usually work our most cherished heirlooms into our home décor, but it’s harder to...
Write about Bullies: 6 Ideas for Telling Your Story
Part 2: Ways to Write about Bullies Tuesday’s post, Writing about Bullies and Boors: Part 1, addressed the different types of bullies looming around in your past. Today’s post will address some strategies to help you write about bullies and other encounters with...
When to Use Fiction to Tell True Stories
How do you communicate your story without having to tell it? One way is to use fiction to tell true stories. Writers often use this tool when they (or their editors) feel that real life fails to produce great literature. (Julie Schumacher’s Turning Real Life into...
Don't Wait.
Put the episodes of the past to paper.
We all have stories to share with our children and grandchildren. Whether it’s a proud moment, memories of grandparents, or a lesson you’ve learned, Memories of Me: A Complete Guide to Telling and Sharing the Stories of Your Life helps you put the episodes of your past onto paper and share them with loved ones.
