by Debbie Hodge | Aug 23, 2013 | Write Your Story
I’m writing my life story, one piece at a time, and you can learn how to write a memoir this way, too. Last night I finished “In Transit.” It’s the story of a recent roadtrip. And it’s more. The details of one day of travel became a...
by Debbie Hodge | Nov 7, 2012 | Feature, Journaling, Write Your Story
[twocol_one] How many of you remember learning to write the “friendly letter” in elementary school? We learned that it’s less formal than the “business letter.” We learned to start the letter with a first paragraph that tells why we’re writing and then to move on into...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 27, 2011 | Ideas for Page Elements, Ideas for Page Topics, Journaling, Paula Gilarde, Photos, Write Your Story
By Paula Gilarde What do you do when you have a memory that you want to preserve, but no photo? Here are a few of my favorite things to use in lieu of a photo: 1. Words One day when my kids were very little, I was having an awful day. Everything went wrong. It was...
by Debbie Hodge | Nov 5, 2010 | Journaling, Write Your Story
The “journey” is the oldest story form known. Journey stories are in the bible, children’s storybooks, and Greek myths. The journey story is one in which your subject leaves home on a “journey” and returns transformed. The journey can be a true trip or a more...
by Debbie Hodge | Oct 22, 2010 | Journaling, Write Your Story
by Myra Cherchio One of the simplest, yet most engaging ways to transform journaling into a colorful and vibrant story is through dialogue. Incorporating words of others, along with your own, captures the nuances in your relationships and adds richness to your...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 23, 2010 | Journaling, Scrapbook Page Elements, Write Your Story
by Debbie Hodge This is the second in a series on scrapbooking pages with perspective. The first article in this series (Consider opposing points of view) introduces this idea and shares one way to do this. Here is yet another approach. Think about the bigger picture...
