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When someone with PTSD shares their story with someone who can help them to document and compile it into a document or self-published book, their family and friends can read that story and understa...

The genre you choose when embarking on writing about a personal or family history  will depend on your writing skill, style or preference, and possibly also on the amount of factual information yo...

This article will be of interest to writers (including members of Life Stories Australia) who specialise in writing life stories. What genre to use when writing someone else's life story -  memoi...

The purpose of editing any publication, whether standard non-fiction or fiction/creative non-fiction, is to make the corrections needed to ensure the writer's intended meaning, story and voice, are...

Poetry Editing Group Gippsland (PEGG) is a group of poets based in Gippsland and surrounding regions, who are committed to writing, workshopping and perfecting their poetry, to publication standard...

A book's "white space" (or "negative space") is the parts that are not covered by text or images. That is, in a white-background type of book, it is literally all the white space around and in betw...

This article is relevant to writers, editors and self-publishers seeking to create an audio book of their e-book or hardcopy book.  Who can narrate and produce your audio book, in Australia? The...

This article has been written and published on behalf of Joan Sammon, whose  memoir A life: I am what I am!  was produced by Sally-Anne Watson Kane in 2019. Background Joan Sammon, who grew up ...

when should i start self-editing my draft manuscript? We suggest you wait at least a few days, or preferably a few weeks, after you have finished your first draft, before self-editing. This is so ...

Based on evidence, the benefits to elderly people, of telling or sharing their life story, or parts of their life story, are as follows. Happiness An elderly person's happiness can be improved at...