Yep, it’s that time of year. Fall is here, and thoughts turn to the holidays and the next year. the3six5 is a project that will attempt to “document each day in 2010.” Participants will write about the events of the day — tell the story of the day — but … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Journaling, Memoir, Lifewriting
You Know You Wanna Craft Your Memoir … Here’s Some Guidance
I definitely have memoir on the brain as it seems like a lot of what has come across my desk and screen in the last couple of weeks has been memoir-related. It is indeed so important to leave our story, our legacy, for others. Here are a couple of resources … Continue reading
Storytelling + Anonymity = Healing
I’ve been writing recently about storytelling for healing and “memoirs-on-the-go” — autobiographical writing in blogs. (And, by the way, here’s a poignant take on a different kind of memoir through social media.) An article by David Spark on SocialMediaBiz reminded me of a site that brings these concepts together and … Continue reading
Storytelling’s Far from a Lost Art: More on Memoirs on the Go
“One thing that people ask me all the time is: ‘is storytelling dying?’” said Dale Jarvis, the Intangible Cultural Heritage development officer for Newfoundland, in a transcript of a podcast interview on PreservationToday.com I know what Dale’s talking about. I constantly see articles lamenting “the lost (or dying) art of … Continue reading
Memoirs on the Go and the Blurring of the Personal and Public
I came across an interesting interview last week with Cynthia Franklin, author of Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today. I was attracted to the interview by Scott Jaschik because I sometimes think about and consider writing about my all-too-short academic life as a college instructor. But the … Continue reading
Moon Landing Stories
I don’t have a good moon-landing story. Forty years ago, I was 15. I watched the grainy, black-and-white video of the landing on a snowy, black-and-white TV. I always associate the moon landing — for some reason — with the Miracle Mets of 1969 and with my fervent participation that … Continue reading
The Story of a Year Told with One Photo a Day
Flickr has a cool group project in which group members each day take a self portrait, tag it with “365days,” and submit it. Below a small selection from a member with the screen name “everythingsjustjake.” I love this idea. What a fantastic way to tell the story of a year … Continue reading
My Big, Fat Memoir-Writing Synthesis
Assisted by Sharon Lippincott’s and Jerry Waxler’s Lifewriters Forum Yahoo group, I’ve become increasingly interested in memoir-writing as a form of identity-constructing storytelling. Here are some interesting bits I’ve come across on the topic: You don’t have to have had great drama in your life or a rags-to-riches story to … Continue reading
Author Offering Free Copy of Her Tribute to Departed Sister: Sixty-Five Roses Memoir
Heather Summerhayes Cariou, whose memoir I blogged about not long ago, has made a very kind offer to send a copy of her book, Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir to a reader of A Storied Career. If you’d like to be the lucky recipient, simply write a sentence in the … Continue reading
Whose Story Would You Like to Hear? Suggest 3 Respected Luminaries for ‘America Remembers’ Campaign
Sarah McCue is a force of nature who is involved in several projects aiming at making the world a better place. One is The Remembering Site, a non-profit initiative that McCue co-founded with D.G. Fulford and launched in 2004 “to make it easy for anyone, anywhere to write, share and … Continue reading