Armchair Genealogists:
Turn your family history into an interesting life story.Memoirists:
You have many stories to tell. They all begin where and from whom you came. The history of your family begins before you were born and that's the beginning of your story.Narrative Non-fiction writers:
It's often said, "You can't make this stuff up!" True stories are the best stories. Mythology is based on the lives of real people, life stories that repeat over the ages and change only with the times and the technology of the day. Someone related to you who you never met made a decision long before you were born that determined where and to whom you were born.Novelists:
Why should you make up characters when your own family is rich with personalities and reputations who have become the mythology on which you came to life? There are eccentrics and every-day people in your family. You may know nothing about many of them. But you can mine these people and their stories with a little effort and the knowledge of where to look. There may have been a great great uncle who fought in the civil war and never came back, but turned up later to the shock of his remarried widow; a great grandmother who disgraced the family, but turned out to be a heroine in the history books; a distant cousin might have been the consort of a king; an ordinary grandfather most likely lived an extraordinary, yet conventional life.Take this day-long workshop and go home with the tools and inspiration to get started, ready to put together the pieces of your past, to write the story.
