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Why it’s good to share your story, if you have PTSD

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...

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Writing family histories: what genre to use?

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...

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Life story writing – as biography, autobiography or memoir

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...

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Self-publishing: the importance of “white space” in your book

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...

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Free offer: memoir by Joan Sammon

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 ...

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The benefits to elderly people of storytelling/sharing memoirs or life stories

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...

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“Bright lights” – memoir-based poems and stories by S Reynolds

Shirley wrote and told these stories and poems that are all based on her love for all the beautiful animals and people in her life, childhood experiences growing up in New Zealand, and imagination ...

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Self-publishing: How to “tag” the images in your manuscript, prior to design

So, you've written and self-edited your manuscript (MS), as a Word document. You've made sure it is structurally sound. You believe it is ready to be handed to an editor for a "final copy edit", be...

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Comparing: “traditional publisher”, “self-publishing services”, “hybrid publisher”, “vanity publisher” & “indie publisher”

What's the difference between a "publisher", "self-publishing services provider", "hybrid publisher", "indie publisher", and "vanity publisher"? Firstly, the first four models - publishing, self...

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Write about what eats you up, what smoulders in your heart

Are you the sort of writer who writes when you are bursting with emotion and/or spirit, and your feeling pours out through your writing and ends up being part of your own or your characters' story?...

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