Where to begin when planning a life story
Where to begin when planning a life story
Writing a substantial life story needs much preparation, but it is an immensely worthwhile endeavour.
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Your favourite stories and creating a powerful memoir
Your favourite stories and creating a powerful memoir
Readers want to know more about you through your memoir, and vivid details make it so much easier for them to remember who you are and what you believe in.
Top 3 Reasons You Should Write Your Memoir
Top 3 Reasons You Should Write Your Memoir
Everyone has a unique story to tell because we all experience life differently. Memoirs are an ideal way to learn how other people see the world and have navigated through life’s ups and downs. We share a common humanity, and through our stories, we can show others how we celebrated our triumphs, survived challenges and […]
You should write a book about it
You should write a book about it
Dinner parties are great for hearing stories but writing them is a craft.
Writing my mother’s story and why some women resist it
Writing my mother’s story and why some women resist it
Modesty and humbleness are denying families the ability to really know family folklore and to have a deeper understanding on often the most influential person in our lives.
Never too late to start a life story
Never too late to start a life story
Arthritic hands, failing eyesight and impaired hearing were no obstacle for telling a life story for Bob and Robin.
On Writing Now
On Writing Now
One little word to help push through life story writer’s block.
The Dawn of a New Decade
The Dawn of a New Decade
The dawn of a new decade is the perfect time to reflect … it’s also the perfect time to start writing a memoir … As we head towards the dawn of a new decade, it is timely to reflect on the previous one—the special moments, ups and downs, challenges, victories and learnings. I don’t know […]
The Perfect Christmas Gift—a Memoir
The Perfect Christmas Gift—a Memoir
As Christmas approaches are you struggling to find the perfect gift for your partner, parents or grandparents? Do your father and grandfather have enough socks and undies to last a lifetime and is your Mum’s bookcase and that of your Grannie bursting at the seams with recipe books they never read? Have you thought of […]
Capture the Anecdotes
Capture the Anecdotes
This afternoon as the insistent blustery wind buffeted the magenta bougainvillea on our balcony overlooking Balmoral Beach in Sydney, I listened to an interview with Oxford University’s Jeremy Hughes and Virginia Woolf’s biographer, Hermione Lee. Jeremy asked Hermione whether writers can employ similar techniques to photographers to produce different images of the same subject. Hermione’s […]
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