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New to Digital Scrapbooking, just started in 2019, want to make a record of family stories before my mother passes away. My dad died in 2016. I currently live in Canada but was born and raised in New Zealand, and emigrated to Canada upon marrying my Canadian spouse. Home Country - lets see - New Zealand or Canada? Which to choose? Most of my photos will be from NZ, but any pics of my son will be from Canada. MY IP Address will say that I am in Canada which is fine. My mother and sister are still back in NZ so I will make my home country as NZ for now. For Facebook, I dont check it every day - I am not addicted to FB, and I use a different name for privacy. My image is myself as a child - aged about 2 or 3 years old
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If we can do Reading and 'Riting - then we can also do Wreading and Writing!!! LOL
I grew up writing. I would buy tons of notebooks and then rip out the sheets after trying to write the perfect story. Those papers would frequently be crushed up and lobbed at the rubbish bin as I tried and tried, over and over again, to be perfect.
My mother tells me that she would often get upset with me at all the paper I was wasting. It would all end up in the rubbish bin eventually. I really was that much of a perfectionist, even as a child and teenager!!
I have read tons of books about writing!!
And I have read tons of memoirs from writers and how they taught themselves to write bestselling books.
Some of my favourites are the 4 books shown on this Layout.
Now I do all my writing on the computer. I have tons and tons of folders in my PC with half finished stories and lots of ideas to write about - but no story.
I have desperate desire to leave behind a legacy - by writing a book.
I guess I am afraid to start in case I dont produce anything that is perfect.
But today as I was making this layout, I read a few quotes.
"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word." - Margaret Atwood
"I have lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but who never actually write anything. Talking about writing, and dreaming about writing, can be lots of fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write!! - Laurell K. Hamilton. (paraphrased)
I have done a lot of dreaming.
Now I need to get over my perfectionism and just start writing!!!!
How do I do that??
SUPPLIES
Paper from the Faded Pages Bundle by Jessica Dunn
Letter W - from the All About Me Alpha by Kate Hadfield
https://katehadfielddesigns.com/blog/alphabet-freebie/
Pierre Berton Book
https://lyracommunications.com/2016/04/10/how-to-save-time-by-recycling-content/
James Michener Memoir
https://www.biblio.com/book/world-my-home-memoir-michener-james/d/59433392
L'amour Autobiography
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B001A0NP42/ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_xN.9sb090MW5D
On Writing by Stephen King from Scribd
https://www.scribd.com/book/224421841/On-Writing-A-Memoir-Of-The-Craft
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Nice, clean page!