Our Family Lines March newsletter 2023
Wading Through Stories
Finding it hard to put your life into words?
What do you want others to know or understand after they’ve read your stories?
Break it Down
If you’re inundated with memories and thus story ideas, question why you’re writing your memoirs in the first place. A memoir isn’t a list of all the events you’ve experienced so far, that’s an autobiography. A memoir is a story that takes your readers on a journey. Pick the stories that mean the most to you and they’ll translate into pieces that will resonate with readers.?
Bullet Points
You don’t have to write every story out, one at a time. Use bullet points to jot down some quick movements, dialogue and thoughts. Then when inspiration hits, go back to the story and flesh it out. Bullet points also help to:
Taking Your Time
Sometimes, we need to tackle certain stories in little bits. Stories that are hard emotionally and mentally can challenge and drain us. By breaking things into chunks like bullet points, we can make our stories more manageable. Don’t get stuck in the middle of an ocean of words when you have the tools to throw you a line.
Memoir prompt:
What has been the greatest challenge of your life up to this point?
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How have you faced it?
Have you moved past it or are you still in it?
Storry News
Storry in SaltwaterSorrows
As many of you know, I’m a fiction writer as well as a non-fiction writer. I enjoy pushing the boundaries of my imagination and creating new characters and worlds. One of my new “people” is coming alive in the Saltwater Sorrows anthology.
My story, Seaweed and Gossip, had been crashing around in my head for twenty years after hearing a roommate in Sackville, N.B. talk about her summers. The roommate said that when she went home to Havre Boucher, an oceanside community near Antigonish, Nova Scotia, she headed to the shore with her mom and friends for some “seaweed and gossip.”
For more on the book and how to pre-order, click here.
Need a little push?
I’ll coach you to finish your stories.