Your Past, Your Present, Their Future
What would you give to know the thoughts and feelings of your great-grandparents? Who were they? What was a typical day in their life? What were their hopes, their feelings, their accomplishments? Your children and grandchildren will want to know these things about you. Put your world into words for future generations. The presentation covers: ..................

*Language on the page: the difference between talking and writing.
*Giving yourself time to write and permission to write.
*How to write like a reporter.
*The many sides of you.
*A day in the life.
*Memory management.

The Informed Interview
Simply by talking to people, you can get information from them that will illuminate a history by helping you to extract important details, whether in the form of statistics or stories.
Learn the three parts of the informed interview:
1. Lighten the load for the interviewee; make it easy for them to tell you their stories
2. Lead them to their memories
3. Listen with more than just your ears

How to Build a Story: The B-M-E Method
You can write your true stories using techniques of fiction writing. That’s because, deep down, you understand story. Many of us know that a story has three parts: beginning, middle, and end. But we might not know what goes into each of those three parts. Learn what must happen in each part for the whole to be complete. Then you can tell a captivating story.

Let a professional writer and educator teach your group how to tell their stories.

Remember: you might be very interesting today,
but you'll be fascinating in fifty years.

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