How To Write Your Story in 30 Minutes a Day: Easy prompts for personal history and memories

by Deb Graham

Why Write Your Own Story? It’s a scary thought--What if you die before you tell your life’s story, and your busybody sister-in-law decides to write it for you? Yes, she’s diligent, but she never really liked you, and she surely doesn’t know you as well as you know yourself. No one can tell your personal stories as clearly or as accurately as you can! Now’s the time, before it’s too late. No dry memoir here! In only thirty short minutes a day, you can begin to tell your own history, drawn from your own memories. Thousands of people have written their personal autobiography and found it compelling, even addictive. Share with your children and generations to come. How To Tell Your Story in 30 minutes or less by Deb Graham makes self-exploration easy, with dozens of questions and memory prompts, carefully designed to get you thinking, to jog memories loose in a fun and interactive way. In just a few minutes a day, you can leave a legacy that will last for generations, more important that your Last Will and Testament. It’s as easy as any essay test you’ve ever taken. Easier, because you know the subject matter intimately---it’s about YOU.

130 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 13, 2014

About the author

Deb is the author of 26 books, four cruise-ship novels, five other novels, and seventeen non-fiction books, including two best-seller-in-genre-on-Amazon cruise books laced with stories about her innocent (so he says) husband; Tips From The Cruise Addict's Wife has been Amazon's Book of the Month repeatedly! Deb's One Daughter at a Time is a coming of age story, but it's about their mother. Can she raise five girls alone and develop a spine along the way? You'll love the Cookie Cutter Legacy, as 97+ year old Henrietta passes down the family lore with great humor and strength. The Ghost in the Bakery is a fun romp about Kate who moved to start a bakery in small-town Oregon, not knowing it has a couple of resident ghosts. Other include: how to write one’s personal story, how to complain effectively, and several cookbooks, science, and craft books for her eight beloved grandchildren, all of whom are cuter than yours. Deb believes firmly in the power of Story, and enjoys presenting workshops on finding one’s own story, as well as self-publishing. Deb’s background in stand-up comedy spills into both her speech and writings.
Deb’s superpowers include being able to spell-check and grammar-check with her brain, a talent for swiftly improvising, be it a dinner for twenty or a game for 200 teens, as well as finding an analogy for almost anything.
Born in New York, Deb now resides in Washington state, and has toured all fifty states, along with close to 30 countries. Perhaps the most noticeable thing about Deb, at first glance, besides her high energy, is the height disparity between her and her 6’ 4” husband, a full 16 inches. Those short jokes? Save ‘em; she’s heard them all.

Reviews

[Jean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Writing Tips..

This was a short book with tips and questions about book writing.

I wish it were longer and had more tips.

Meghan Crawford did well with the narration.

Note:
"This audio book was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review."

[Florenz Maxwell · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was expecting more than a series of questions. After the questions. I was hoping for a way to organise them into chapters. There was no completion to writing a personal history. Perhaps I was expecting too much.

I wanted to give the book a higher rating but I was disappointed when I reached the end. The numerous questions, divided into headings did not show me how to put together a complete book. This book is probably for a more advanced writer.