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Ask Melissa - Organizing Your Stories

Ask Melissa - Organizing Your Stories

Today we are going to look at a question from a reader that I believe is a universal issue for all writers and can cause overwhelm and stop us from getting started or even cause us to lose important stories and topics we’d like to write about if not considered and planned for right at the beginning. Leticia asks: I am currently just writing in one journal. I was thinking of having different journals for different stories or thoughts. Will that be too much or too confusing?

5 Tips for Getting Started Writing Your Personal & Family Stories

5 Tips for Getting Started Writing Your  Personal & Family Stories

One of the questions I get most often since I have been speaking about “Preserving Your Past” is where to start. When people think of family stories or personal stories they become overwhelmed thinking they need to write them all, right now! Many are also paralyzed by the fear of