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....
Writing Prompt Wednesday

Writing Prompt Wednesday

This week’s writing prompt is one of those heavy questions you get when you hear a motivational speaker. Seriously, what motivates you to succeed, besides the obvious of meeting your basic human needs like food, clothing, and shelter? While that’s enough to keep us...
Writing Prompt Wednesday

Writing Prompt Wednesday

Sometimes we do stupid stuff in life. We make bad decisions on the spur of the moment. Sometimes we live to tell about it.  This week’s life story prompt asks you to think about the embarrassing family stories that you may not want to tell, but that influenced other...