Lifewriting—What If The Kids Don’t Care?
A January 21 post in The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing blog mentions an article from the Denver Post of that same date called , “Ordinary Families Make History, Too.” A couple of Colorado writers, Irv Green and Andrea Gross, have a business of creating heirloom family story books and noticed that it was often the grandchildren who were more interested in the family stories rather than the grown children of the customers. “I thought it’d be the grandmother writing for her 50-year-old son, but it was the 11-year-old grandchildren going bonkers over the stories,” Gross said. And, that’s about what I say at presentations—you never know who will enjoy the old memories or at what age they will become interested, so write down or tell those stories anyway. If not now, then someday someone will be glad you did.
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1 Response to Lifewriting—What If The Kids Don’t Care?
I just barged into the doors of the blogosphere some weeks back writing about my life story. I did not expect to be read, far from it. That readers are coming in and telling me they enjoy it is a big surprise.