Create Your Life Story : Helping You Record a Lifetime of Stories — How to Record, Edit and Publish Life Stories

WRONG – You’ll Never Guess the Surprises from a Life Story

9 December 2011

Go try and guess, I’ll bet you’ll be wrong! There are many things that you can prepare for a Life Story. The questions, location, additional information like photos but one thing you can be guaranteed of is, there will be surprises that will astound you. These surprises could be in just hearing the stories that [...]

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Episode 63 : Help with Your Life Story

28 November 2011

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There is help nearby for your Life Story Click to share on Twitter Your great idea of recording a Life Story requires one major achievement. You to actually do it! That’s obvious and with all the content available here on Create Your Life Story you can get the knowledge to start and complete a project [...]

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Digitally Saving on a Grand Scale

13 November 2011

Saving the physical world around us. With personal stories we can record a voice or maybe some video. We can scan the photos or create images of the more tangible things in life but how do you remember something that is big. Like a house or a pyramid or Mount Rushmore? Here is another great [...]

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Interviewing and Story Telling with Ira Glass and Richard Fidler

10 November 2011

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What we can learn from the professionals. I was listening to this episode of Richard Fidler’s wonderful Conversations, interview programme on the ABC and thinking how much of it is relevant to what we’re doing with Life Stories. From Richard’s recent trip to the US we have this interview with Ira Glass, host of the [...]

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Free Quick Start Mini-Guide to Your Life Story

5 November 2011

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Find something simple to start today. The huge amount of content here on Create Your Life Story has created an issue of overwhelm for some people. I know that feeling from personal experience of starting on these projects and I want to help you. Where do I start? To help you cut to the chase, I’ve created [...]

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Episode 62 : Fear of Your Life Story

2 November 2011

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Are you fearful of telling your story, or just a little shy? In this episode of Create Your Life Story I want to open a conversation about the reasons for people not wanting to tell their stories, particularly when they say that they are interested. In recording conversations for Your Story, I’ve noticed several, sometimes contradictory reasons why people avoid [...]

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Recording Your Life Story for all History

26 October 2011

The everyday stories of human history are being recorded today. One of the greatest history shows I know of, be it television, radio, text or new media is the extraordinary Dan Carlin’s Hard Core History. If you want to go deep, not just into the facts but start thinking of some of the other issues of [...]

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Who’s Life Story do You Wish you’d Recorded?

26 October 2011

Everyone has missed some stories. It doesn’t matter who I mention Create Your Life Story to, but everyone; Everyone!!! says that there is someone from their life who they didn’t happen to get that information, that story, that understanding, of what their life was all about… and how they wished they had Then in the [...]

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Have you been told a Furphy?

24 October 2011

Origins of culture aren’t always understood. In Australian parlance to be told a Furphy is to be told a great yarn that probably isn’t true. All too often we use sayings, knowing the meaning but not knowing it’s origin. Telling a Furphy is a term still used today that originates in WWI but few know [...]

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Episode 61 : Difference of Life Story and Oral History

20 October 2011

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What we can learn from Oral History and how we travel our own path. Oral history and storytelling bookend what we’re doing here at Create Your Life Story with our family Life Stories. Oral history is academic and storytelling is theatric.We’re not exactly in either camp but we can learn a great deal from these disciplines and this episode [...]

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Reporting Your Family Story

19 October 2011

Look at your life, like a journalist would. Have you thought about approaching your own life and therefore, your families story as a journalist would? In a recent post on CNN Mark Whitaker suggested some great ideas to help you dig deeper into your family, using some of the skills that he’s gained in 35 [...]

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I’ve Been Meaning to… Oh! Too Late.

6 October 2011

Is recording a Life Story something that you have written on your white board? Nicked from Crikey.com

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Episode 60 : Remember the Stories of Community

5 October 2011

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Remember the groups of people and the stories of shared lives. We all live in different communities that change over time. Some we leave some change but all are filled with the people who we share our lives with, forming the stories of our lives. What are the stories of your communities through your life? [...]

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Manhatta – Time Travel to 90 Years Ago

3 October 2011

Mundane life today is the fascinating story for tomorrow Now, after a significant period of time, (in this case more than one lifetime), we have the chance to see people, long gone in daily activities that they took for granted. We have the chance to look through a portal back in time. As is always the case, [...]