How Understanding Culture Can Help with Genealogy and Storytelling
Genealogist and blogger Linda Yip explains how understanding culture is paramount to genealogical research as well as to writing compelling family stories. In genealogy, documents can provide the factual framework, but cultural context provides the colour and life....
How to Add Emotional Context to your Stories
Emotional context can help your readers connect to the story. Additionally, people who are emotionally invested in a story are more details. Which means it’s a win-win for readers and writers. Unfortunately, those of us writing down memories, we sometimes forget that...
Why Context Matters in Storytelling
A story’s setting and circumstances of its characters gives it its life. Even if the “characters” are real. That’s why context matters in storytelling. The idea that a picture is worth a thousand words is often misunderstood, in my opinion. Sure, having a visual of a...
Remembering an Embarrassing Moment
If it were truly humiliating, remembering an embarrassing moment could turn out to be less of a problem than how to stop re-living it. However, those minor incidents tend to disappear from memory. (Or is that repression?) Sometimes, letting our hair down and admitting...
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.
