Unless you’re in line to have an airport named in your honor, or there’s to be a statue of you in the town square, your stories are how you’ll be remembered – they are your legacy. And nobody knows them like you do. You’ll have so much fun doing it. It’s up to you.
If you want to be remembered as a real person, if you don’t want to end up just a name and Date of Birth/Date of Death on Ancestry.com – you need this book—Your Legacy. It’s a How-to and Why-to book that will inspire and encourage you to get your stories written. Sure, your kids may know some of your stories, but your grandkids, and their grandkids, don’t/won’t. If you don’t write them, they’ll be lost—your legacy will be lost forever—in just a couple of generations. You’ll just be a name and DOB/DOD on the family tree—one of history’s mysteries.
If you don’t know how to get started, Your Legacy has pages and pages of suggested topics, such as:
- Recollections or legends about relatives: parents, siblings, grandparents, distant ancestors, et cetera.
- Your most terrifying experience.
- The biggest lie you ever told.
- How illness/injury were treated in your family.
- Your adventures, travels.
- A risk you took and how it turned out.
- A turning point in your life.
Any topic could result in a short anecdote or even a full novel or play. It’s up to you.
Your Legacy has easy instructions:
- How to get your readers’ attention and draw them in.
- Suggestions for organizing your life stories.
- How to get past being overwhelmed. (How do you eat an elephant? — One bite at a time.)
- Elements of a good story. (What makes a good story good.)
- Blueprint for a good (riveting) story.
- Why it must be written rather than just videotaped or a voice-taped. Do both, if you like, but be sure you write it down. Otherwise, it may not survive technology.
Your Legacy has writing activities to get you started, or keep you going, such as:
- Write a story about the best/worst advice you ever got.
- Write about a person, using anecdotes to bring them to life.
Your Legacy has short memoirs written by myself and others to inspire you.
Your Legacy has a chapter titled: Your Memoir and the Law, in case you’re worried about writing about other people.
Author Carol Purroy has been teaching memoir writing classes for over 30 years. This book is the best thing to come along. It has everything you’ll need for writing your life stories . . . so you won’t be forgotten.
Be remembered as you want to be. Time’s a-wastin’. Click the BUY ON AMAZON button. Get Your Legacy now and get started.