Writing memoirs, biographies and other books and articles about amazing humans. Singing sweet songs.
Being clear about who you’re writing your life story for before you start writing will make it easier for you. Who are you writing your story for? Yourself? Your family? The public? Who ever it’s for, knowing this from the start will also set the tone and determine what you include. Will you unleash all …
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Writing your memoirs or life story is one of those really important things many people mean to do, but never get around to. Or, in my father’s case, he couldn’t see the point in sharing the details of his very ‘normal’ life. My father was a child of WW2 who went onto become a soldier …
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My father once escaped, naked, from a prison camp with another guy. Actually, he was taken prisoner and escaped twice, with others. He was a soldier in the British army. And that’s all I know. I don’t know where he escaped from or what year it was. I don’t know who he escaped from, or who …
I write people's memoirs or biographies and lately I've come to realise our lives are so intertwined with others that it's hard to follow one person's story, without threading into the stories of those around us. Isn't that a beautiful thing? We're inately social beings. I've noticed that once the subject of the memoir has …
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