by Memoir Mentor on December 28, 2008 · 0 comments
If you haven’t yet written a story about one of your favorite Christmases, here’s one to inspire you, written by one of my students, Carol Enos, a self-described “tomboy” when she was a girl. Her humorous and poignant story dramatizes her itch to break free of the mold prescribed for girls in those days. [...]
by Memoir Mentor on December 11, 2008 · 2 comments
Each year I invite my students to my home for a Christmas party, an event we all look forward to and enjoy. Since I’m always looking for new ways to motivate my students to write, I told them this year the price of admission was a short original Christmas story. They groaned and complained, but [...]
by Memoir Mentor on December 3, 2008 · 1 comment
Want to know the best way to start thinking of your subject’s life as a story? Put any information you have about her into a chronology, or timeline, similar to the one below I created for my great-great-grandmother. It’s fairly simple to create one in WORD or WordPerfect using the Table tool. Once you build [...]
