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Advice to Beginning Writers: Start By Telling Your Family Stories
Today in our second to last class of feature writing, the students had the opportunity to ask any remaining questions they wanted or make a comment about anything related to writing. During this session, they posed great questions, from how to find a good story angle to how to start writing in their spare time. My answer on the latter one was simple, and it’s one of the biggest regrets I have in terms of my family’s history: you should write down your family stories. As all of my grandparents and great-grandparents are long gone, so, too, are some of their stories. However, those stories that have lived on through…