Writing Interesting Family Histories

Keen to write an engaging family history? Stuck with little more than names and dates? Uncertain how to begin? Writing INTERESTING Family Histories is a must-read. With advice ranging from how you can structure a simple family history and begin writing, through to how you can use simple words and sentences to evoke drama and tension, this book will help turn your dusty piles of notes and photocopies into a riveting family history. It will challenge you to rethink what "facts" truly are. It will show you how to extract "dialogue" from original records. It will help release your creative writing spirit. There is no need to fictionalise history to make it interesting After reading this book, you too will be able to turn dry facts into exciting narrative.