The Memoir Toolkit
The sole aim of this Toolkit is to make it easier for more people to tell more stories so there is more understanding across generations and cultures.
Your memoir, career story or family history will enrich people’s lives; it will resonate with some, be a keepsake for others, and raise the historical consciousness of all readers.
Most of us have complex and unique backgrounds. Our stories are shaped by identity, enlarged by new generations, enriched by new experiences, and maintained by the memories, stories and objects passed from generation to generation.
Our Toolkit is drawn from years of assisting people from all walks of life with their memoirs. We understand the processes and complexities, but also the desire people have to record and share their stories.
Life can sometimes be messy, but it’s always memorable!
The DIY memoir, life story & family history guide
Helps you to get started and finished writing about your life or some part of it
Helps you help other people with the same aspirations
Prompts you to think about the thousands of events, influences and stages that make up your own personal story
Provides tips and tricks for collecting your archive, fact-checking and technical tasks
Provides encouragement and advice on writing, editing, footnoting and captioning
Assists with using and incorporating images
Offers advice and options for publishing
In addition to the ‘Getting started .. and finished’ chapter our Memoir Toolkit offers 13 sections and over 350 question prompts to get you thinking about your family, day-to-day and home life, your education, independence, work and retirement, romance, love and children, your ancestry and home country, eras and events of significance, the future, serious stuff, trivia and much more - what have been the broader influences on you and what has been your place in this world?
The suggestions and questions accommodate every writing style from lightheartedness to thoughtfulness, and from dot points to prose.
Our full-colour, illustrated, 34-page Memoir Toolkit is available in digital and printed formats with lots of space for writing notes and jotting down ideas. The printed format is on thick 100% recycled paper with strong wiro binding so you can fold the pages back for easier working and revisit your project time and again.
