Writing Workshop: Mining Your Life Story

When it comes to writing a book about your personal life or family, learn how to use journalistic-type storytelling skills to create a work of fiction or nonfiction. Led by a seasoned journalist with nearly 4 decades of newswriting experience, you can pick up tips to hone interviewing, investigative, research, and reporting talents to explore your personal or family history in greater depth than a shorter article, essay, press release, video, social media post, or business report.  See how the two mediums of expression (news and book writing) compare and how you can navigate the crossover in your own material. Some of the subjects discussed in this session include how to know when a life experience, news story, or idea is worthy of playing out in a book, what research tools are available to add depth and credibility, and how to turn facts into non-fiction or fiction to recreate history with or without interviews.