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Your Personal Guide to

Legacy Writing

A Step-By-Step Organizing and Writing Guide to Help You Pass On Your Legacy Stories


Writing your own legacy is a very rewarding, and at the same time a unique endeavor.  Capturing our past in bits and pieces and putting them together is importantplus a wonderful legacy gift for our children and others as well.

Today, in America's helter-skelter busyness of living, we are losing the art of storytellingthat is, the telling and passing on of our own stories.  And as a result the legacy that we pass on is incomplete.  Once we are gone, that legacy can be lost forever.

Realizing this fact, more and more folks are starting to collect and write some of their life stories. But the task may seem daunting…what to tell…where to begin…how to write it to interest future readers.

Well, take heart!

Now there is help that can make the important job of legacy writing easierand fun in the form of a unique guide that takes the legacy writer through the process from start to finish.

Remember that your children, grandchildren, friends, and others will thank you a million times over for taking the time to pass on to them their heritage.  Your legacy stories will be cherished for years to come!

 

The Legacy Writing Guide is designed to become the writer's very own personal workbook to help get them started, organized, and easily to the task of recording in writing their legacy stories. 

The Guide lays out different kinds of
 legacy stories -

Ø      Scrapbooks to storytelling

Ø      Observations of life's lessons learned

Ø      Family tales/stories

Ø      Family characters and history

Ø      What it was like back then

The Guide provides step-by-step guidance for -

Ø      Selecting which stories to write

Ø      Source gathering

Ø      Creating a helpful writing outline

Ø      Preparing to writewhen, where, and the legacy mindset

Ø      Writing tips especially for the legacy writer

Ø      Being a good self-editor

Ø      Making it into a book for generations to come to enjoy

 We wish you well as you embark on your legacy writing!

The author, Stephen Pfleiderer, is a recognized writing authority. In his 40 years in publishing he has trained hundreds of writers in effective writing.  He now does coaching with individual writers.  He teaches a course on Legacy Writing at the Jefferson Institute of Life Long Learning at the University of Virginia.

 

To order copies of YOUR PERSONAL GUIDE TO LEGACY WRITING, send an e-mail to legacyword@aol.com or call at
(434) 977-4229.

 

The price of the 124-page Guide is $28, which includes shipping and handling.