LifeStory Briefs

"LifeStory Briefs" and "Life Writing for Publication" are tip sheets published by SCN to help you create and publish your life stories.

Life Story Briefs:

  1. Seeing Double: Writing from Photos

  2. Creating Your LifeLine

  3. Starting Cold? Warm Up First!

  4. Compiling a Family History Notebook

  5. Writing About Real People

  6. Variety: The Spice of Memoir

  7. The Millenium Memoir

  8. Details, Details, Details!

  9. Creating & Using Your LifeLine

  10. Using Dialogue in Your Memoir

  11. Finding Your Voice

  12. Writing About Disaster

  13. Adding a Chapter on Ancestors to Your Life Story

Life Writing for Publication:

  1. Life Writing for Publication

  2. Publishing Your Writing on the Web

  3. A Primer for On-Line Journalers

  4. Finding a Literary Agent

  5. Writing a Query Letter

  6. Writing the Book Proposal

  7. Copyright: What is it and How Does it Work?