Story

The Best StoryTelling Secerts

Tweet Storytelling is an art for sharing your Life Master storytellers know what to do and how to tell a story. Some from an instinctive place within them and others from an understanding of the rules. If they know the rules they can share them with us. Here is master storyteller of Andrew Stanton sharing [...]

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Episode 64 : It’s About Your Story – Hindenburg Editing Software

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:51 — 33.5MB) Tweet Hindenburg makes editing your Life Story simple so you can concentrate on the Story Click to share on Twitter I know the feeling of getting bogged down on the details of Creating a Life Story. There are so many things that can take you [...]

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Interviewing and Story Telling with Ira Glass and Richard Fidler

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Podcast (additional): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:51 — 23.3MB) Tweet 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 [...]

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

Tweet 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 [...]

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70 Year Journey Back in Time

Tweet Your own personal Time Machine Imagine for a moment stepping through a door, back in time to the dark days of WWII. What would you see if you could travel in that time machine? How many little things would be the same and how many would have changed? Recently a woman who owned a [...]

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What Story Got You Out of a Tricky Situation?

Tweet Sometimes a great story will help you to get away with anything. Although all tongue in cheek this shows the power of a good story even if it’s only to sell something

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Episode 26 : Telling Your Story

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (29.6MB) Tweet It’s more than just a conversation when you tell a story Have you ever noticed when you have those very casual conversations that sometimes there is a shift in the way things are mentioned. Instead of it just being a back and forth exchange of thoughts [...]

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I’m Gutted – What Happens when You Wait too Long

Tweet The other day I received a message on Facebook from a friend who listens to Your Story and this Podcast. I didn’t even know Tony was listening to the show but he has since mentioned that it was the motivation for him to get on with recording his Dad’s life story. Something that he [...]

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Episode 6 : Start Recording a Life Story

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:59 — 40.6MB) Tweet Start Small, Just Record Click to share on Twitter With any new project, like recording a Your Life Story, it’s important to start! Filling your life with the preparation is often a form of procrastination. For that reason it’s important to get underway and [...]

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An Autobiography – What a Great Idea.

Tweet I was talking to my mother the other day. I had just phoned to wish her a happy birthday and catching up when she mentioned the computer course that she is doing with a class of similarly aged people. I had not mentioned to her what I had been doing here with Create Your [...]

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A Picture Needs a Thousand Words

Tweet You’ve heard the saying “A picture says a thousand words”. That however is only when you know about the image within context. This image to the left is a ? (the answer is at the bottom of this post) Without context it could be one of many things. That’s the very reason we have [...]

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How to Record a Life Story

Recording Life Stories free e-Book is the perfect introduction to the ideas of recording an audio Life Story and then how to publish and share with family or the world.

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Something to Say?

Tweet Well, have you? Sure you have, you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t have something to get off your chest or something that you want to say. I’m sure you have things to share with the world or at least stories that would fascinate your family. That’s what this site is about, this is [...]