Continuing my rollout of finds that will eventually land on my inside pages (even as I place on inside pages the finds I listed last July). Today’s list belongs to the category Links about Journaling, Memoir-Writing, and Personal Storytelling Beyond the Trees: Brainchild of two Cincinnati women with stories of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Journaling, Memoir, Lifewriting
I Have Succumbed to Pinterest!
Visual Storytelling and Art Journaling image curations As you probably know, Pinterest is the hottest social-media platform going, having grown phenomenally in the last few months. Users describe it as addictive. “Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web,” the site states. “People … Continue reading
Project 365 Vets Collecting and Sharing Veterans Stories
Project 365 Vets is a site I would normally list on one of my inside pages rather than featuring here, but because its mission is so worthy and may be time-limited (it’s not clear to me whether the project will continue for more than one year), I’m giving it the … Continue reading
Life Writing: A Bit of Looking Back, A Lot of Looking Ahead
Some interesting life-writing items I’ve come across recently reflect end-of-the-old-year/beginning-of-the-new-year themes. Professional Personal Historian Dan Curtis published a list of The Top Personal History Blogs of 2011, some of which I know well and will also be well-known to readers here. (Do read his post to learn his criteria for … Continue reading
Yet Another Storied Way to Assess Your Year, Plan the Next One
To my current theme of year-end review and new-year goals, I’m adapting some ideas from an article by Ernest R. Stair in the January 2012 issue of Toastmaster magazine (to read the full article, you’ll need to return to the link later in January — unless you’re a Toastmasters member). … Continue reading
Two More Freebies for Lifewriters
In his final offering of November’s National Lifewriting Month, Denis Ledoux offered the downloadable Scheduling for Success, a guide to keeping one’s writing projects on track. Strictly speaking, the guide works for any writer, not just lifewriters. Meanwhile, Annabel Candy is offering the free, downloadable e-booklet, Personal Writing Magic. The … Continue reading
Lessons of “The Life Reports”
Here’s one more followup on New York Times columnist David Brooks’s project to collect stories from folks older than 70, a series he’s calling “The Life Report” … Brooks has synthesized the lessons offered by the life stories/essays he received: Divide your life into chapters. Beware rumination. You can’t control … Continue reading
Friday is National Day of Listening (to Stories)
November 25 is the third annual National Day of Listening, a national holiday started by the acclaimed oral history nonprofit organization StoryCorps in 2008. It is a day when families are encouraged to give the gift of storytelling to their loved ones, leaving a legacy that’s likely to be treasured … Continue reading
Free Download Helps Analyze Book Audience
Denis Ledoux has been offering loads of free goodies for November’s National Life Writing Month. The latest is a free download, Who Will Read Your Book?. The guide includes a detailed form that enables authors to truly understand whom they’re writing for. Ledoux’s own audience is lifewriters/memoirists, but the handout … Continue reading
More Lifewriting Goodies and Tonight’s Teleclass
I’m continuing to receive lots of communications from Denis Ledoux of Soleil Lifestory, marking National Lifewriting Month. Tonight at 7 Eastern is his first of three teleclasses for memoir writers, “Write the First Draft of Your Memoir: Getting Started and Keeping Going.” To register for the free class, call 207-353-5454 … Continue reading