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Category Archives: Writing prompt
The Ravine House
By Sarah White For the first assignment in my Creative Writing class this summer, I challenged my students to write a “portal story.” This is a story about the first time your protagonist reaches the place on the other side … Continue reading
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GAB Theme 3: The Role of Money
This week we conclude our exploration of themes from Guided Autobiography, or “GAB” for short, the reminiscence writing method developed by Dr. James Birren to help individuals explore and document their life stories. The process involves small-group workshops where participants … Continue reading
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GAB Theme 2: History of Your Family
This week we continue our exploration of themes from Guided Autobiography, or “GAB” for short. GAB is a reminiscence writing method where you reflect on prompts and write two to three pages on a specific theme. In a GAB workshop, … Continue reading
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GAB Theme 1: Major Branching Points
Welcome to our focus on themes from Guided Autobiography, or “GAB” as we call it, for short! Guided Autobiography is a reminiscence writing method in which you reflect on prompting questions on a theme, then write two or three pages. … Continue reading
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Musing on Why We Write “the Dark Stuff”
By Sarah White It’s been awhile since I surfaced on the virtual page here at True Stories Well Told, so I thought I’d take a break from publishing others’ stories and show up myself. I have Guided Autobiography workshops going … Continue reading
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Revisiting the “Flash” Form
I’m teaching a Creative Writing workshop for Madison College at the moment; yesterday’s lesson was on the “Flash” form — Flash fiction, nonfiction, memoir. The zoomed-in essence of Flash can be applied to any genre. A student asked, “When did … Continue reading
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LifeMapping—Because Everything Happened Somewhere
By Sarah White An email recently popped into my in-box that reminded me of one of the oddest—and most entertaining—freelance writing assignments I’ve ever taken on. That email was about a reminiscence tool that you might consider for yourself or … Continue reading
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Desperately Seeking Stories
Okay, I’m not desperate, just having fun with a play on words about that rom-com with Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, “Desperately Seeking Susan.” The film premiered in 1985. It was Madonna’s first major screen role. It is one of my … Continue reading
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A Week at Camp Torture
By Sarah White This post was written in response to the prompt, “A time you stepped outside your value system or witnessed someone being treated differently,” from the Guided Autobiography theme “Navigating Differences.” Waycross Camp is an Episcopal summer camp. After several … Continue reading
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Share YOUR “Family Troubles”
For three weeks, my posts have focused on “Family Troubles”–the difficulties we encounter when we put our life stories out in the world, where people whose lives overlap ours can read them. Now I want to hear from you–have you … Continue reading →