Be sure to proof-read and make corrections when necessary, as you progress in writing your life story.
You have now been given all the necessary steps to begin writing your life story. If you stay with it, before long your story will be completed and you can make copies to give to your family members. What a wonderful legacy to leave them!
My following posts on this blog will offer you topics, questions or ideas to write about. The topics and ideas I give you are only meant to help jog your memory about possible happenings in your life....maybe things you have totally forgotten all about.....and that you may want to include in your story.
My topics and questions may not be in the chronological order of where you are at in your writing, but jot the title down for later writing...or...write about it now and put it in the right place later when you come to that period of your life story.
As you do your writing, some fascinating things will begin to occur. As you are writing about one topic or incident suddenly it may trigger other memories, thoughts and events. Be sure to make a notation on paper of these other memories that come to you. Then you can go back and write about it and include them, also.
Topics and Questions to help jog your memory:
~~ Write the full name of your parents, siblings and other relatives.
~~ Write the full date, and the town and state of where everyone was born.
~~ Tell a family nickname you had and why it was given to you.
~~ What did your father do for a living?
~~ Name the towns you lived in when you were a child and the address of your home there, if you remember it.
The Story of my Life
