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The Heart and Craft Family of Websites

• Writing for the Health of It: Tapping into the health benefits and power of life writing.
• The Heart and Craft of Life Writing: Blog about general aspects of writing stories, memoir and other aspects of life writing.
• A Los Alamos Girlhood: Personal experience with the process of writing a memoir
• Sharon Lippincott.com: Umbrella website for life writing, includes resources and free downloads.

Links

Life Writing Blogs
• Ritergal's Story Site
• Memory Writer's Network
• The Book Designer
• The Water Witch's Daughter
• Writing Time: Write Your Life Into Story
• Howard Blue's Memoir Reviews
• Writing Through Life
• Diana Raab: Literary Musings
• WORDplay
• The Hale Street Gang and Me
• Word Strumpet
• Wayne Groner, Personal Historian
• Following the Whispers
• Memoir Guide: Understanding your memoir, your audience, and your life
• Osher Life Long Learning Institute Life Story Center
• Seasonality
• Paper Cut Screams
• Gullible's Travels
• The Blood-Red Pencil
• Red Ravine: A blog about writing practice
• Just Write
• Cherry Blossom Memories
• A Slice of Life Writing
• Women's Memoirs
• Riehl Life
• A Storied Career
• My Life at Ninety: Looking Back and Moving On
Post your own stories:
• The Elder Storytelling Site
• Share Your Lifestory at Elder.com
• Great Life Stories
• Stories In Common
• Boomoirs.com
• The Center For Lifestory Writing

Other Resources:
• Daily Grammar A series of e-mail lessons to learn flawless grammar
• 236 Creative Writing Prompts
• Memories and Memoirs
• National Association of Memoir Writers
• Old Forty Fives Info about the 1950s and 60s
• Kingwood College Library, American Cultural History