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About this Book:
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This book contains descriptions of how to gather and organize material and get started writing, how to develop writing style, and how to edit a memoir. There is information for planning and conducting interviews, and collecting and using information gathered from family members. The research section includes the names, phone numbers, mailing and e-mail addresses of governmental, private and non-profit genealogical sources. There are sections on memoir formatting, publishing, and more.
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About the Author:
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Virginia Ward writes, teaches and edits fiction and non-fiction. She is particularly interested in creating an awareness of the individual's talent. For the writer, memoir and short fiction are often motivators to discovering creativity. Using the elements of story helps the new writer infuse family history with the reality of personal struggles. Families come to life on the page. Later, family experience is often the catalyst for writing fiction.
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