{"id":2538,"date":"2011-11-20T08:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T13:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2011-11-20T08:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T13:33:14","slug":"the-day-after-the-brian-henry-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"The Day After the Brian Henry Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, November 19th, my husband and I both Brian Henry’s inspirational and motivational writing workshop “Writing your life & other true stories”<\/strong> in Kingston.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>I always learn something at Brian’s workshops, and yesterday was no exception. My husband and I share an interest in genealogy and we thought that being able to tell the story in an interesting way would be far better appreciated by the family whose stories we’d be writing.<\/div>\n
The genealogy software we use does create “book” format but it contains just raw genealogical data and while that’s good, there’s no personal reflections, memories, observations in it. Mind you, if you’re writing about someone\/something from the 1800s or earlier, you’re not going to have much to go on other than a general social history of the time (since you weren’t alive then) and assume that your ancestors were in the same predicament as everyone else. If you’re lucky, you had an ancestor who could read and write and kept journals.<\/div>\n
Whether either one of us tackles a segment in time of one of our ancestor’s lives and writes about it remains to be seen, although I have written articles on Home Children, including one on my father. Still not quite the same as a novel-length memoir.<\/div>\n
Now that I have the knowledge of how to write it and the tricks of using novel writing techniques to get it “on paper”, I’ll be much better equipped for when the times comes.<\/div>\n
I’m looking forward to my next workshop with Brian.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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