The Legacy Guide
Capturing the Facts, Memories, and Meaning of Your Life
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
The ultimate guide and companion for anyone who wants to record the story of his or her life or that of a loved one.
Have you ever wondered about an ancestor you know only as a compelling face in a faded family photograph? Imagine discovering an entire book on this ancestor's life -one that described the world in which he lived and detailed his dreams, accomplishments, disappointments, and the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime. The Legacy Guide helps readers create such a book. Designed for writers and non-writers alike, it outlines a simple, intuitive, and highly flexible framework for turning your personal history-or that of a loved one-into a treasured family heirloom.
It's been said that everyone has a story to tell, but anyone who has sat down to record his or her life story will tell you that there were moments of feeling completely overwhelmed and frustrated. Introducing the innovative program Facts to Memories to Meaning, The Legacy Guide takes you step-by-step through the seven stages of life-such as childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, etc.-to recall moments long forgotten and to discover their significance. And it helps you fashion these pieces together, much as you would a scrapbook, into a creative and compelling whole. Full of engaging and instructive quotations from the famous and the not-so-famous who have committed their stories to paper, The Legacy Guide will inspire you to capture the milestone events that have given shape to your life and allow you to weave them into a book that preserves this legacy for generations to come.
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Veteran authors Franco and Lineback lead readers from beginning to end through the daunting process of writing a memoir-for fun, loved ones or publishing. Examining each stage of life, the authors outline the issues to consider and the questions to ask oneself, as well as techniques for successful writing. Using lively examples from a variety of literary sources, as well as some of their personal stories, the authors clue readers in with insightful ideas, down-to-earth stylistic advice and resources for further study. Writing tips aren't groundbreaking ("Always end a work session when you are confident of what to say or do next") but reinforce practical, time-tested methods, illuminating the smoothest trajectory through this difficult, solitary task. The authors' focus on distilling meaning from life events proves the most helpful part of the work ("what wisdom did you gain from the choices that didn't quite work out?"), which should be of immediate utility for anyone who enjoys journaling or scrapbooking and wants to take their hobby in a more analytical (and potentially profitable) direction.
