It’s an old truism that you should write about what you know. But how do you know what you know? That’s easy, you know much more than you can verbalize. You know how wonderful a certain time of day feels. You know about breakfast and working and getting the bath ready. You know about the details that makes your life worth living- but is this the stuff of stories? Of course it is. The first thing to
Real time is great but the secret to telling a story is to select what to show and when, in a sequence, to show it. Doesn’t matter if it’s a historic event (like my wife’s Holiday time family reunion ) or a more “daily life” story (like my daughter’s Pollock painting project ) you will still have to choose.
