Category: Writing Life Stories
Why Handwritten Notes Matter in an Oral History Project
When we think about capturing someone’s life story, we often focus on recordings, transcripts, and photographs. But handwritten notes — the ones you scribble during an interview, the…
Writing in Episodes: A Practical Approach to Life Story Writing
Many people who want to preserve a family member’s life story are not writers by training or inclination. The prospect of producing a book-length memoir feels impossibly large.…
Writing a Thematic Memoir: An Alternative to Chronological Structure
Most life stories are told in chronological order, beginning with birth and childhood and moving forward through time. This is a natural and effective structure. But it is…
Four Ways to Structure a Personal Memoir
A memoir does not have to begin at the beginning. Some of the most affecting personal histories start in the middle of a life — at a turning…
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