The Family History Writing Studio
Shaping Genealogy into Shareable Stories
You found the drought. The wheat prices, the relief office, the four dry years with a name attached. You put it in a paragraph near the top so the reader would understand what she was up against.
And the paragraph is true. That is what makes it so hard to cut.
This week on Storylines: what social history actually is, why your story needs more of it than you think, and why it keeps arriving on the page as a lump.
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I have been away from writing and are looking forward to studying and writing again.
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