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5 tips for writing your life story
By Beth Sanders
Writing an autobiography really doesn't have to be rocket science. Here are 5 great tips to help you get started.
1. Think. Think about the people who shaped you, your childhood memories, the real world of adulthood, and the values and lessons you have learned through the years.
2. Ask. Ask questions of your relatives when you are together or by phone. After all, their lives are a big part of your life. Change your conversations from the same-old, same-old to something new. You've probably never asked a parent or grandparent to describe their childhood neighborhood to you.
3. Write. Answering questions is a great way to get started at LifeBio.com OR put pen to paper in a Memory Journal. Some of the most amazing stories are just raw, honest, and from YOUR point of view. Nothing fancy. You can always use our spell check within LifeBio or print out your story for a quick grammar check.
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4. Edit. Your family and friends really don't want every detail of your life recorded. This is not a blog...it is your life story! Some of the deep questions of life mean more than knowing just the facts or just the funny family stories. Give your family and friends a little bit of everything in your story.
5. Preserve. Get your story in a digital form and then you can create a book from your story. Make sure key people get a copy of your autobiography. Ensure your family can easily locate this along with your other important papers. You've made the effort so it's important that your stories live on--long after you're gone. Genealogists and your great-great-great grandchildren will thank you! Your story is a gift.
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From Dr. Richard Morgan -- Americans are realizing that we stand in danger of losing
our stories. Our mobile society often separates us from our
history, even our families. Grandparents often live far away,
and children are less likely to hear family stories at their
grandmother's knee.
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Life OnlineT with Bob Parsons (CEO & Founder of GoDaddy.com)
Use the Web to Give Voice to the Past. Find out how the site
that captures life's stories attracts the non-tech crowd.
Guest: Beth Sanders, LifeBio.com Founder.
Listen or download the show here.
I was eight years old, and I was looking forward to many things that Christmas.
Every morning my sister, brother, and I would bound down the
green-shag carpeted stairs to untie a Tootsie Roll from each
of our Countdown to Christmas charts. There was always the temptation
to eat tomorrow's piece of candy too, but we somehow resisted.
My littlest brother had just been born that September so he
wasn't counting down with candy yet.
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The Power of Grandma's Stories.
.... For the first time, she told me how she teased her big
sister, what it was like to play "side-center" basketball, why
she liked being a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and how
she systematically organized her home for a family of six. That
day grandma became a young girl, a teenager, a new teacher,
and a mother to me---so much more than my grandma....
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From Clubmom.com - 5 Good Reasons
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