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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Writing Your Memoir
There is one writing project that everybody should feel compelled to undertake for their family and heirs, and that’s a memoir.
How I wish my grandmother and grandfather had left a written record of their lives. Yes, they told me stories, but I was the typical disinterested kid. It wasn’t cool to let them know I cared. Almost anything took precedence over their tales from the past.
Still, some part of the stories seeped into the corners of my mind. In later years, when someone brought up the name of someone named B.J. in my grandmother’s hometown and wondered if he had been her relative, I could answer with almost certainty because I remembered hearing her call him Uncle B.J. When my grandfather told of walking miles to court my grandmother, somehow I also remembered later where he had said they both lived. These facts weren’t important to me as a teenager, but they became important when later the family would get together and try to recall family tales. But we couldn’t verify anything because, unfortunately, my grandparents were no longer around to ask.
Most people don’t seem to realize that their story has value for anyone but themselves, but once you are gone, only your memory lives on. Very rarely are your stories recalled with any accuracy. How will your grandchildren know what life was like for you growing up as a teenager? How can they fathom the differences between transportation, school, clothing fads, or technology? Sure you might try to tell them about these things, but they probably feign disinterest in hearing about the “old ways,” and instead prefer plugging the earpiece of their MP3 players into their ears and tuning you out. But if you’ve put it all in writing, there will come a day when they pick up your memoir and read it. Often you’re no longer around when they decide to start asking questions about the family and the past. Your memoir may be their only connection to these stories.
Your memoir can enrich your family’s sense of connection to the past by weaving in old family stories as well as your own life story.
But you wonder, “Where do I start?”
The easiest way to get started is to jot down snatches of memories. Write down your recollection of eating an ice cold snow cone and having it drip down the front of your shirt on a hot, sticky day at a little league game. Jot down a note about your first car, and how it didn’t have reverse gear, so you had to park it where you could drive forward to get out. Make a note about the bunking parties you remember (now called sleepovers), who was there, and what you did to have fun. If your family had a garden, make a note about it and what was planted there, whether you helped till the soil or pick the fruits and vegetables, whether you ate them there in the garden or made it to the house with them uneaten. Note the simple things, which will probably spark more memories and become cherished stories.
These notes don’t have to be in any order. Later, you can organize your list in a way that makes sense for your memoir. The notes can be divided by age or by activity or family gatherings. Your memoir can start at the beginning and end at the present time, or it can start with some significant memory and go either backwards or forward, or it can start right now and work backwards. There’s no hard or fast rule about how memoirs are organized, so write it however you wish.
Another way to organize your thoughts and make sure you leave nothing out is to start a list of topics in the middle of a blank page, such as parents, siblings, extended family members, school memories, parties, dances, sports activities, first date, double-dating, first kiss, first boy or girlfriend, significant movies you remember seeing, first car, first bicycle, your neighborhood friends, games you played together, getting married, having babies, etc.
Circle each topic, then draw a line out from each and start a related list, such as: school memories—name(s) of school(s), first day of school, favorite teacher, favorite subjects, playground memories, getting in trouble, school plays or programs, friends, etc. This type of information gathering expands out, and will help you recall lost memories. Write about your parents: your mother’s favorite dress, how she wore her hair, her scent, favorite foods that she cooked; your dad’s work clothes, what he did for a living, how he smelled when he came home, the sound of his car as he drove in the driveway, the smell of grass as he (or you) mowed the lawn. It’s important to recall how you felt about specific moments: sad, happy, or overjoyed; whether you laughed, cried, or wailed; whether you were frightened or confident.
The above system can also be used for organizing someone else’s life story, even those who have hired you to write their memoirs. Everyone collects a lifetime of experiences, almost any of which will make an interesting story. Find ways to ferret out the most significant memories.
My sister was only 56 when she passed away—shortly after her first two grandchildren were born, so the only memories they have of her are from watching old videos in which she appeared. Mostly, though, she took the videos and didn’t have a starring role. When her third grandchild was born, I realized she had never even met her grandmother, so I sat down and wrote a memoir for all three of her grandchildren and titled it, “When Grammy Was a Little Girl.”
Since my sister was a year younger than me, I had memories of her when she was very young, plus photos and stories told by our mother and aunt. We played together, laughed and cried together, fought with each other, and shared most important life experiences until we became older teenagers. Her best friend from high school told me of activities that added depth to her school day stories. Still, I couldn’t recall all the memories she might have thought important to leave her grandchildren, and I probably remembered some things she would rather her grandchildren not know!
I’ll never know what she would have wanted, but her grandkids do now have a book with photos of her as a little girl and teenager, and stories about her life that hopefully brings her closer to them. I ended the book with her meeting and marrying their granddad. Even though she and I spent less time together after we both married, we still managed to share some funny, poignant, crazy and sad times even as we aged—some that her grandchildren might enjoy hearing someday.
Life can slip away before we know it, so make sure you get your memories down on paper as soon as possible. Even if you don’t think anyone cares about them, your written story will charm someone, somewhere, and will be a lasting record of your time spent here on earth.
The scene around Mount St. Helens, which still shows the river filled with mudflow, even after 24 years.
Okay, so this is not Geraldo, but I would have been shooting directly into the sun to snap his picture. The mountain was spewing steam at this moment, and officials as well as national news networks were anxiously watching the activity on the mountain.
Mount St. Helen’s Volcano
Right now a volcano in Alaska is threatening to erupt, and who knows when it will or what damage it might do to the surrounding area and the environment. However, we only have to look at Mt. St. Helens in Washington State to see the type of destruction that can happen.
We visited St. Helens a few years after its devastating blast in 1980, when more than 200 square miles of Douglas Fir forests disappeared beneath mud, and trees lay fallen where they had stood. The scene was beyond eerie.
In 2004, we once again visited the mountain to see if anything had changed. It still looks otherworldly, like a scene straight off the Moon’s surface. But now there are signs of regeneration on surrounding hills and mountains. Trees are sprouting, and manmade visitor centers and overlooks have popped up on nearby viewing sites. But even today, not all is safe or perfect there.
On the day we went, the mountain was threatening to erupt once again. It continuously puffed steam and the ground trembled, even as thousands of visitors, including us, drove up to get a close-up view of the action. Dozens of national network news vans with satellites on top were there filming the activity. We got out and wandered around Johnston Ridge, an observatory and visitor center named for the young volcanologist who lost his life reporting on the pending eruption back in 1980. In all, 57 people lost their lives on that picture-perfect spring day that quickly turned into night when ash and terror filled the skies.
I know some of you must wonder why we would go see the mountain while the seismometer was registering heavy earthquake activity. We were staying nearby in an RV resort and figured we were goners if it erupted, whether we remained there or went up on the mountain. The activity did hasten our departure from the area, though.
At Johnston Ridge, we watched the seismometer bounce up and down to the rhythm of the mountain’s burps, and then headed into the theater to view the horrifying big screen movie of the eruption in 1980. As the curtains parted following the movie to reveal a stunning view of what remains of Mount St. Helens, newscaster Geraldo Rivera walked by.
Mount St. Helens is an easy drive east of I-5, between Portland and Seattle, and is a fascinating site to visit since you can look directly into the north flank of the mountain, much of which disappeared during the volcanic blast. In the United States, there is no volcano site other than Hawaii that reveals the process of regeneration that can be observed there. Visit the Web site at: http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/
Friday, January 02, 2009
The Brass Tacks of Formatting a Manuscript
When I first started writing for publication, things were pretty straightforward. Everyone used a typewriter, and while some of us toiled away on a trusty little portable, others speedily whipped out articles on a big fancy IBM electric that did everything but think (or so we thought at the time). Still, they were all basically the same as far as setting margins, etc., and we weren’t using a variety of word processing software programs to confuse us and the publisher. Now it’s different.
Whether you are writing a book or a magazine article, if you will be submitting it to a publisher, you must know how to format it. Most publishers will send you guidelines for submitting to them, but sometimes the instructions leave out some small point that writers tend to get hung up on. Guidelines might say margins should be set as follows: Top – 1-1/2 inch, sides – 1-1/4 inch, bottom – 2 inches, but they don’t explain what the first page should look like, or they don’t tell how big the top margin should be when starting a new chapter, as for a book. And they don’t tell how to number subsequent pages and identify them. Often they expect you to know these things. Another thing guidelines will not tell you is how to set your margins in your particular word processing program, because editors have no way of knowing what you use.
So how do you go about learning these things?
Well, here’s a start. All magazine manuscripts should have a similar front page, with your **REAL name, address, telephone number, and cell phone number in the top, left hand corner. The guidelines from the publisher might ask for your social security number, especially if you are getting an assignment, so put it below your phone number. If enclosing photos with your ms., type in number of photos enclosed, if any, below the phone numbers. And be sure to identify and number all of your photos on the back with a return address label, and type a sheet identifying each one with a caption.
**(Use your real name on your ms. so the check will be made out to that name and you can get it cashed. However, I often get checks made out to Kay Kennedy, and I simply sign that way, then below it, sign with my real name which appears on my identification and my bank account.)
The top right hand corner, 1st line should tell how many words in your manuscript. I always count the words and then write “appx. xxx words,” simply in case I might be a few words off. The 2nd line should tell what rights you are selling (1st N. American rights, second serial rights, etc), and the 3rd line should show: © 2009, your name. Okay, this last line is questionable since a few editors take offense at authors showing that their article is copyrighted. However, I still include it. If an editor gets upset, that is probably an editor I don’t care to work with anyway.
Next, you should drop down to about 1/3 of the page and center your title. Beneath the title put your name, centered, such as: by Kay Kennedy. This is where you would use your pen name if it is not the same as your given name, because you want your name to appear here as it will in the magazine.
Unless you are sending an unsolicited book manuscript to a publisher, you should receive guidelines on how the layout should appear. Since there are many different ways of doing it, depending on whether you’re sending a hard copy or electronic one, I can’t even attempt to explain a system for book formatting here.
Now, as for laying out your article ms. page, every program is different, as are different versions of Microsoft Word. But somewhere at the top of your page will appear the word “page layout.” Click on that and you’ll find the place to set your margins. You may also want to select the font you wish to use. Do not use “courier” since that is what was used on typewriters. Editors would rather see something like “Times Roman,” which you will find on the list when you click “fonts.”
In my current MS Word software program, I choose line spacing under the word “paragraph” on the “page layout” page. You’ll see a place to choose “line spacing,” where you can click on “double” to get double line spacing.
Realize that although you have chosen a title and sent in a specific number of words, the title will likely be changed by the editor, and entire sections of your manuscript might be cut.
Confused? I hope not, but if any of you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I’ve been doing this so long that it’s automatic, and I might leave out something important without realizing it.
When I first started writing for publication, things were pretty straightforward. Everyone used a typewriter, and while some of us toiled away on a trusty little portable, others speedily whipped out articles on a big fancy IBM electric that did everything but think (or so we thought at the time). Still, they were all basically the same as far as setting margins, etc., and we weren’t using a variety of word processing software programs to confuse us and the publisher. Now it’s different.
Whether you are writing a book or a magazine article, if you will be submitting it to a publisher, you must know how to format it. Most publishers will send you guidelines for submitting to them, but sometimes the instructions leave out some small point that writers tend to get hung up on. Guidelines might say margins should be set as follows: Top – 1-1/2 inch, sides – 1-1/4 inch, bottom – 2 inches, but they don’t explain what the first page should look like, or they don’t tell how big the top margin should be when starting a new chapter, as for a book. And they don’t tell how to number subsequent pages and identify them. Often they expect you to know these things. Another thing guidelines will not tell you is how to set your margins in your particular word processing program, because editors have no way of knowing what you use.
So how do you go about learning these things?
Well, here’s a start. All magazine manuscripts should have a similar front page, with your **REAL name, address, telephone number, and cell phone number in the top, left hand corner. The guidelines from the publisher might ask for your social security number, especially if you are getting an assignment, so put it below your phone number. If enclosing photos with your ms., type in number of photos enclosed, if any, below the phone numbers. And be sure to identify and number all of your photos on the back with a return address label, and type a sheet identifying each one with a caption.
**(Use your real name on your ms. so the check will be made out to that name and you can get it cashed. However, I often get checks made out to Kay Kennedy, and I simply sign that way, then below it, sign with my real name which appears on my identification and my bank account.)
The top right hand corner, 1st line should tell how many words in your manuscript. I always count the words and then write “appx. xxx words,” simply in case I might be a few words off. The 2nd line should tell what rights you are selling (1st N. American rights, second serial rights, etc), and the 3rd line should show: © 2009, your name. Okay, this last line is questionable since a few editors take offense at authors showing that their article is copyrighted. However, I still include it. If an editor gets upset, that is probably an editor I don’t care to work with anyway.
Next, you should drop down to about 1/3 of the page and center your title. Beneath the title put your name, centered, such as: by Kay Kennedy. This is where you would use your pen name if it is not the same as your given name, because you want your name to appear here as it will in the magazine.
Unless you are sending an unsolicited book manuscript to a publisher, you should receive guidelines on how the layout should appear. Since there are many different ways of doing it, depending on whether you’re sending a hard copy or electronic one, I can’t even attempt to explain a system for book formatting here.
Now, as for laying out your article ms. page, every program is different, as are different versions of Microsoft Word. But somewhere at the top of your page will appear the word “page layout.” Click on that and you’ll find the place to set your margins. You may also want to select the font you wish to use. Do not use “courier” since that is what was used on typewriters. Editors would rather see something like “Times Roman,” which you will find on the list when you click “fonts.”
In my current MS Word software program, I choose line spacing under the word “paragraph” on the “page layout” page. You’ll see a place to choose “line spacing,” where you can click on “double” to get double line spacing.
Realize that although you have chosen a title and sent in a specific number of words, the title will likely be changed by the editor, and entire sections of your manuscript might be cut.
Confused? I hope not, but if any of you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I’ve been doing this so long that it’s automatic, and I might leave out something important without realizing it.
Because of the formatting limits of this blog, I cannot show an example of the correct manuscript formatting here, so if you are not a subscriber, you may contact me at portable . writer @ yahoo.com (don't use spaces between the words in email address) and I will send you a copy of the newsletter by email.
Scam Warning
I found this warning for a scam in WritersWeekly. It is one that many freelance writers would find attractive. Don’t become caught in its web. Go to: http://www.writersweekly.com/this_weeks_article/005040_11192008.html, to read the article that almost entrapped one writer. By the way, any writer hoping to make a living doing what they love should read Angela Hoy’s weekly newsletter, writersweekly, which always offers good advice and has lots of excellent articles. Be sure to click on “articles” at the top of the page to check out past articles that might be of interest to you.
I found this warning for a scam in WritersWeekly. It is one that many freelance writers would find attractive. Don’t become caught in its web. Go to: http://www.writersweekly.com/this_weeks_article/005040_11192008.html, to read the article that almost entrapped one writer. By the way, any writer hoping to make a living doing what they love should read Angela Hoy’s weekly newsletter, writersweekly, which always offers good advice and has lots of excellent articles. Be sure to click on “articles” at the top of the page to check out past articles that might be of interest to you.
Ways Writers Can Contribute During Recession
The following few lines originally appeared in an article on networking in Portable Writing Newsletter back in Jan. 2007. It seems appropriate to take an excerpt from that article to fit the current economic situation. As writers, we all have the ability to make a positive contribution to our communities. On the other hand, if our own situation seems dire, we have within us the ability to improve our situation. Sometimes, while doing one, we’re also doing the other: that is, helping ourselves while helping others. The excerpt follows:
“Most people love to help people. It’s inbred, in our blood.
And maybe that’s a good lesson for all of us to remember this holiday season. Perhaps you can’t give time or money to help someone less fortunate, but you can always give someone a leg up by recommending they call you later, or suggesting they call a friend who might can help them achieve their goals or dreams. People don’t always need a handout; they may simply need a helping hand up.
What goes around, comes around. Every time you help someone else, it will eventually come back to you. Look at life that way and your in-basket will always be overflowing.”
Okay, so what else, besides giving money or donating canned goods, pet food or clothes, can you do to make life better for others. First of all, you could volunteer a couple of hours a week or make it a one-time shot to a charitable organization or your church. Food banks are seeing higher demand than they can meet, animal shelters are finding their kennels overflowing with abandoned animals as more and more people lose their homes, churches are having more people turn to them for help and spiritual guidance during tough times, thrift shops are reaching record sales as people seek out clothing bargains.
There are many ways you can help out any of these organizations, such as donating time, supplies, and/or money, but as a writer, you can offer to produce a newsletter, flyers, short articles for the local newspaper, inventory lists, or even maintain their membership list. There are numerous ways to put your writing and computer skills to use in almost any type of charitable organization. If your favorite charity doesn’t offer something that fits your skills, be ready to suggest a way to make yourself useful that involves using your writing talents.
Maybe you have life skills that would be useful to overwhelmed families, and could offer to teach classes in budgeting for a family, planning and cooking economical meals, writing a resumé, job interviewing skills, sewing and mending clothes, or starting a small home-based business. People are searching for ways to make their income stretch further, and useful skills that we might take for granted could possibly change the lives of some of those less fortunate. Writers generally have the ability to organize ideas and create useful courses on a variety of subjects, incorporating skills they’ve learned from raising a family or working at a variety of jobs. We all tend to think that what we’ve done isn’t that important, but we all know things that others would love to learn.
Your life will be enriched by the people you meet while volunteering, and you’ll receive other wonderful benefits, including improved mental and physical health from the simple act of helping someone else. Another benefit could come from the people you meet while volunteering. Many busy executives and their families volunteer, and it’s possible you’ll meet someone who is impressed with your dedication and talent, and will recommend you to one of their business associates. That, of course, could lead to an increase in your writing income.
Those of us who are fortunate to have good health, a roof over our heads, plenty to eat, and a lifetime of experiences, no matter what our age or background, all have something useful to give to others, especially in times like these.
Remember: good things come from doing good things for others.
The following few lines originally appeared in an article on networking in Portable Writing Newsletter back in Jan. 2007. It seems appropriate to take an excerpt from that article to fit the current economic situation. As writers, we all have the ability to make a positive contribution to our communities. On the other hand, if our own situation seems dire, we have within us the ability to improve our situation. Sometimes, while doing one, we’re also doing the other: that is, helping ourselves while helping others. The excerpt follows:
“Most people love to help people. It’s inbred, in our blood.
And maybe that’s a good lesson for all of us to remember this holiday season. Perhaps you can’t give time or money to help someone less fortunate, but you can always give someone a leg up by recommending they call you later, or suggesting they call a friend who might can help them achieve their goals or dreams. People don’t always need a handout; they may simply need a helping hand up.
What goes around, comes around. Every time you help someone else, it will eventually come back to you. Look at life that way and your in-basket will always be overflowing.”
Okay, so what else, besides giving money or donating canned goods, pet food or clothes, can you do to make life better for others. First of all, you could volunteer a couple of hours a week or make it a one-time shot to a charitable organization or your church. Food banks are seeing higher demand than they can meet, animal shelters are finding their kennels overflowing with abandoned animals as more and more people lose their homes, churches are having more people turn to them for help and spiritual guidance during tough times, thrift shops are reaching record sales as people seek out clothing bargains.
There are many ways you can help out any of these organizations, such as donating time, supplies, and/or money, but as a writer, you can offer to produce a newsletter, flyers, short articles for the local newspaper, inventory lists, or even maintain their membership list. There are numerous ways to put your writing and computer skills to use in almost any type of charitable organization. If your favorite charity doesn’t offer something that fits your skills, be ready to suggest a way to make yourself useful that involves using your writing talents.
Maybe you have life skills that would be useful to overwhelmed families, and could offer to teach classes in budgeting for a family, planning and cooking economical meals, writing a resumé, job interviewing skills, sewing and mending clothes, or starting a small home-based business. People are searching for ways to make their income stretch further, and useful skills that we might take for granted could possibly change the lives of some of those less fortunate. Writers generally have the ability to organize ideas and create useful courses on a variety of subjects, incorporating skills they’ve learned from raising a family or working at a variety of jobs. We all tend to think that what we’ve done isn’t that important, but we all know things that others would love to learn.
Your life will be enriched by the people you meet while volunteering, and you’ll receive other wonderful benefits, including improved mental and physical health from the simple act of helping someone else. Another benefit could come from the people you meet while volunteering. Many busy executives and their families volunteer, and it’s possible you’ll meet someone who is impressed with your dedication and talent, and will recommend you to one of their business associates. That, of course, could lead to an increase in your writing income.
Those of us who are fortunate to have good health, a roof over our heads, plenty to eat, and a lifetime of experiences, no matter what our age or background, all have something useful to give to others, especially in times like these.
Remember: good things come from doing good things for others.
Find the Real Old West in Oatman, Arizona
When I started this newsletter, I used to include a short story on fun places to visit, especially since traveling is the reason for RVing. So this time, I’ve decided to include an article about a place on old Route 66, which many of you have probably never heard about before.
If you take off on old Route 66 to the West, just outside Kingman, AZ, you can’t miss the little ghost town of Oatman. When we made the trip, we left out motorhome behind in Kingman. This section of Route 66 is not a road over which you want to drive your big RV, nor is there a place in the ghost town to park your rig. The road there is narrow and winding, plus it does some climbing. This town is also easily reached within an hour or so from Needles, CA, Laughlin, NV and Bullhead City, AZ, but the 25 mile road to Bullhead City is unpaved, although well graded.
You’ll know you’ve reached Oatman when you spot burros meandering down the street and along the wooden sidewalks. These are descendants of the original beasts of burden that were brought in to help miners back in the town’s heyday, and then were turned loose to fend for themselves when the miners left. The original burros and their descendants quickly learned to beg for food. Today they come down from the surrounding hills each morning to solicit food from friendly tourists and shop owners, and have no fear of poking their heads through doorways if they think a friendly handout might await them there. Most shops sell carrots to feed the burros.
Oatman was founded in the 1800s, then hit it big in 1915 when a gold strike worth $10 million drew 3500 people to the area. A narrow-guage railroad served Oatman for a short while, but the town died more than once as first, the gold played out, then later when Interstate 40 drew tourists and travelers away from the old highway and the town. The Oatman Hotel was made famous by the honeymoon stopover of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, famous ‘30s movie actors, on March 18, 1939. Tourists who remember them still ask to see the room where they stayed.
Today, Oatman is still an active place on weekends, where staged gunfights take place on the main street. Prospectors still comb the area in search of gold, especially since gold prices have reached record levels during this past year. And you might recognize some familiar scenes from western movies like How the West Was Won.
The trip to Oatman is a perfect, picturesque journey into the past, and a glimpse into the true Old West.
When I started this newsletter, I used to include a short story on fun places to visit, especially since traveling is the reason for RVing. So this time, I’ve decided to include an article about a place on old Route 66, which many of you have probably never heard about before.
If you take off on old Route 66 to the West, just outside Kingman, AZ, you can’t miss the little ghost town of Oatman. When we made the trip, we left out motorhome behind in Kingman. This section of Route 66 is not a road over which you want to drive your big RV, nor is there a place in the ghost town to park your rig. The road there is narrow and winding, plus it does some climbing. This town is also easily reached within an hour or so from Needles, CA, Laughlin, NV and Bullhead City, AZ, but the 25 mile road to Bullhead City is unpaved, although well graded.
You’ll know you’ve reached Oatman when you spot burros meandering down the street and along the wooden sidewalks. These are descendants of the original beasts of burden that were brought in to help miners back in the town’s heyday, and then were turned loose to fend for themselves when the miners left. The original burros and their descendants quickly learned to beg for food. Today they come down from the surrounding hills each morning to solicit food from friendly tourists and shop owners, and have no fear of poking their heads through doorways if they think a friendly handout might await them there. Most shops sell carrots to feed the burros.
Oatman was founded in the 1800s, then hit it big in 1915 when a gold strike worth $10 million drew 3500 people to the area. A narrow-guage railroad served Oatman for a short while, but the town died more than once as first, the gold played out, then later when Interstate 40 drew tourists and travelers away from the old highway and the town. The Oatman Hotel was made famous by the honeymoon stopover of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, famous ‘30s movie actors, on March 18, 1939. Tourists who remember them still ask to see the room where they stayed.
Today, Oatman is still an active place on weekends, where staged gunfights take place on the main street. Prospectors still comb the area in search of gold, especially since gold prices have reached record levels during this past year. And you might recognize some familiar scenes from western movies like How the West Was Won.
The trip to Oatman is a perfect, picturesque journey into the past, and a glimpse into the true Old West.
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