"How to Write a Story People Will Want to Read"

"Life narratives don't have to be dry as dust. The recent wave of best-selling memoirs demonstrates that even stories about ordinary people can keep readers enthralled and turning pages like the most compelling fiction." p.6

In this book one learns by doing. These principles of writing can be used for writing pioneer histories as well as any ancestral memoir. Even better, for our own memoir.

Any memoir idea can be turned into an interview question. This book is full of ideas to be captured.