How To Write Your Personal Or Family History
(If You Don’t Do It, Who Will?)
Katie Funk Wiebe
Everyone has a story to tell: Tips on exploring, writing, and sharing your story
This is a practical – and encouraging – how-to book from a long-time teacher of personal and family history writing. Katie Funk Wiebe helps beginning memoir writers get started on collecting the stories of their lives. She gives hints for recalling distant memories and tips for tracking down family heirlooms. This is a serious but accessible resource for undertaking your personal or family history writing. In these pages, you’ll find:
- Tips on writing
- Exercises to prod your memory
- Writing prompts to help you get started and keep going
- Examples of intriguing stories
- Advice on looking at the broad scope of a well-live life.
There’s no better time than now to delve into the past and record your story for posterity, and this book is the perfect companion for that journey. As Wiebe writes, “You’ve been living twenty-four hours every day, making decisions, objecting to certain ideas, endorsing others, and interacting with family and co-workers. I plan to convince you that if you took time to reflect, you’d find lots of meaningful stuff going on.”
