Writing Your Life: An Easy-to-Follow Guide to Writing an Autobiography (Adults)

Writing Your Life: An Easy-to-Follow Guide to Writing an Autobiography (Adults)
by Mary Borg

Writing Your Life: An Easy-to-Follow Guide to Writing an Autobiography (Adults)
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Author: Mary Borg
Illustrator: Joyce Mihran Turley
Edition: Spiral-bound
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-01-01
ISBN: 1877673072
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Prufrock Press, Inc.

Summary of Writing Your Life: An Easy-to-Follow Guide to Writing an Autobiography (Adults)

Writing Your Life will help you write down the stories of your life, for present and future generations. Even if you never considered yourself a writer, you will find yourself writing enthusiastically as you work through this thought-provoking, easy-to-follow guide.
Writing Your Life includes:
  • practical advice for getting started and staying motivated;
  • questions to stimulate your memory;
  • activities to help you remember the past, or look to the past in a new way;
  • selections from the autobiographical writings of ordinary men and women;
  • sample writing tips;
  • reading suggestions, quotations, historical tidbits and other food for thought; and
  • instructions for "publishing" a book for family and friends.

This book is ideal for anyone college age or older.
A comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide for assisting anyone on the path to completing a first-class autobiography.

--Elderview
Senior-education teacher Mary Borg...provides lively questions on family, career, and friendships, designed to tease out memories.

--New Choices Magazine

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