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articles: planning your book

Gathering Story Ideas for Your Memoir
 

You probably have a treasure trove of ideas available. Learn how to use exercises to stimulate your memory, examine family photographs and documents to recall stories, and interview family members or friends to add to what you know.

Life Stories: Selecting the Highlights
 

When most people begin a memoir project, they find themselves with more stories than they can, or should, include. This article helps you decide what gets in and what’s left out.

The Structure of A Memoir: Chapters, or Not?
  Can my memoir just be a series of stories? Would it be better if stories were organized into chapters? This article will provide you with tools to decide which you want for your book.
How to Create Interesting, Memorable Titles
 

You could always call your book My Life, as Bill Clinton did. Or perhaps you would be better off with a title like Angela’s Ashes or Running with Scissors. This article helps you to create a title that reflects the unique aspects of your book.

   
 

planning your book

Perhaps you’re thinking about creating a memoir, but you worry that you won’t have enough to write about. Don’t worry! These articles are designed to help solve that problem. We’ll help you to generate story ideas for your memoir or family history book.

Many of our brainstorming exercises are truly fun – you can get together with a friend and do them together. Sorting through old photographs and family documents or conducting interviews can also help you find ideas.

Once you’ve generated ideas, you can consider how the ideas can be best organized. We’ll discuss choosing the stories to include, structuring your chapters, and selecting titles for your stories chapters, and even the title for your book.

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“Life is not that which one lived, but that which one remembers, and how one remembers to tell it.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (born 1928)

 
 
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