Linda Austin
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Category Archives: lifewriting
Writing Your Personal History with COVID-19
These are strange and scary times – history-making times. This novel coronavirus may likely spawn novels as well as science papers, but most interesting will be the true stories of survival. That’s where you can help, besides by sequestering yourself … Continue reading
Posted in capturing memories, history, journal, lifewriting, overcoming, raising kids, writing prompt
Tagged historical events
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Even memoir writers need to do research
Maybe you’ve heard about the controversy with the newly published novel American Dirt, where a “white person” has written about what’s left of a Mexican family escaping violence by illegally crossing into the US. Apparently it’s a romantic drama thriller … Continue reading
New Year resolutions to ask for stories, write the stories
It’s a new year and in the next several weeks I will be speaking to a couple seniors groups to persuade them to adopt new year resolutions to begin writing the stories of their lives – mostly because it’s fun … Continue reading
Posted in heritage, history, lifewriting, storytelling
Tagged culture and heritage, family history, grandparents, historical events, lifewriting
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