When Family Doesn’t Like You Writing About Family

When Family Doesn’t Like You Writing About Family

  Writing personal family stories is such a vast emotional experience and it often is very therapeutic. It becomes a reunion with memory and works to keep the stories of our ancestors alive.  Not every project produces a book, but each story recharges a memory....
Writing Prompt Wednesday

Writing Prompt Wednesday

This life story question is almost a game: tell us something about you that most people don’t know. It’s been done in interviews with a celebrities (Vogue’s 73 Questions) or as conversation starters at a wedding. It’s a fun way to start dinner table conversation....
Tidbit Fishing In Memoir

Tidbit Fishing In Memoir

What does it mean to be tidbit fishing? Last week I talked about this on Instagram, but my videos kept getting cut off. Please bear with me while I get used to posting videos on social media. Tidbit fishing is when you stop the writing or recording process to make...
Writing Prompt Wednesday

Writing Prompt Wednesday

Sometimes people don’t know where to start when they think about writing or preserving family stories. This week’s writing prompt asks you to simply think about it first.  Reminisce with your memories. Make a list. Go old school with a pad of paper and a list of...