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    Your Words, Your Life Story: A Guide for Sharing Memories
    Your Words, Your Life Story: A Guide for Sharing Memories
    Your Words, Your Life Story: A Guide for Sharing Memories
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    Your Words, Your Life Story: A Guide for Sharing Memories

    By J.Q. Rose

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    You can be the author of your life story. You don't believe you are a storyteller?

    I bet you've told stories today talking to your friend over the phone and telling her all about the card game last night. Did you call your daughter this morning to tell her about the latest outlandish project Aunt Bertha is planning? Those are stories! Only you can tell the truth about the joys and sorrows, successes and failures, loved ones and villains, and your secret dreams.

     

    How do you begin? Award-winning author J.Q. Rose will help you follow the path to sharing your story. Your Words, Your Life Story: A Guide for Sharing Memories is based on years of presenting workshops in life story writing. The chapters will help spark memories for you to share with friends and family. No silly questions to answer, but helpful ways to spark memories of those rich life experiences that must be saved now.

     

    You aren't a writer? J.Q. will help you learn how to record your story by using video or audio programs. Preserving the experiences of the past for future generations is important. Your beloved stories will be a treasured guide to help your family through their lives.

     

    Start now to put together the precious stories that make up your life story, a treasured family keepsake.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.Q. Rose
    Release dateDec 10, 2019
    ISBN9781393914662
    Your Words, Your Life Story: A Guide for Sharing Memories
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    J.Q. Rose

    Whether the story is fiction or non-fiction, J.Q. Rose is “focused on the story.”  She offers readers chills, giggles and quirky characters woven within the pages of her mystery books. Using her storytelling skills, she provides entertainment and information in articles featured in magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. J.Q. taught elementary school for several years and never lost the love for teaching passed down from her teacher grandmother and mother. She satisfies that aspect of her character by presenting workshops on Creative Writing and Writing Your Life Story.  When J.Q. is not reading or writing, she enjoys photography, playing Pegs and Jokers board games, and traveling with her husband. They spend winters in Florida and summers up north camping and hunting toads, frogs, and salamanders with her four grandsons and granddaughter.

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      Your Words, Your Life Story - J.Q. Rose

      Author’s Note

      Hello! I am delighted you have chosen this book to help you spark your memories and share them. The precious gift of your stories will certainly become a treasured heirloom for your family.

      But wait, you say. I am not a storyteller.

      I bet today you have told stories. What about telling your sister about your experience at  a new restaurant in town? Did you call your friend to tell her about the PTA meeting she missed last night? Did you describe the clever decorations at your friend’s baby shower to your co-workers?

      See? You tell stories all the time and don’t even realize it.

      Your entire life story is made up of a collection of small stories filled with memories. Now is the time for you to recall those memories and write them down.

      Whether you decide to write those memories in a journal, notebook, computer or record them on video or audio, it makes no difference. The important thing is that you preserve these stories as the truth for generations yet unborn.

      But if you’re not a writer, that’s no problem because you can tell your story on video or audio. Chapter 2—Not a Writer? Not a Problem offers you information and links to video and audio programs.

      Future readers will wonder as they peruse the stories how you ever lived without a TV, computer, or microwave (or what else they may be using in the future?).  But the story of your life, the struggles, the joys, the accomplishments, will be what they understand.  Your account will be a guide to help them through their own lives.

      Feel free to skip about the chapters in the book and read and journal in the way you wish. There is no strict method on how to use this book or when to journal. Do it at your own pace. The important words here are do it.

      The most difficult part about telling your story is sitting down and working on it. Here are a few tips.

      Block out 15 minutes or more every day to devote to telling your story.

      Make an appointment with yourself. Put it on your calendar or in your planner. Your work is valuable and worth the investment of time.

      Keep that appointment much like you keep a doctor’s appointment. (I’d say dentist appointment, but I know lots of people skip them!)

      Memoir vs Life Story

      Throughout this book, I will use the terms memoir and life

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