Create Your Life Story : Helping You Record a Lifetime of Stories

Episode 63 : Help with Your Life Story


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There is help nearby for your Life Story
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Your great idea of recording a Life Story requires one major achievement. You to actually do it! That’s obvious and with all the content available here on Create Your Life Story you can get the knowledge to start and complete a project but you may need more.
The help for your Life Story project
Depending on what your project is and what you intend to create will determine any help you’ll need.
If the project is about yourself you may be self motivated enough to record your stories, edit them and have them in a final form for everyone without any help or if you’re going to record someone else you may know the topics you want to talk about, feel confident to have a conversation, then move onto the editing and publishing without any outside help.
If this is the case you need read no further however not everyone can do everything and sometimes we need a little assistance.
Maybe you need someone’s help for various reasons.

* Take on the whole project from preparation to publishing.
* Record a relative for you, as you’re too close.
* You know what to talk about but you want a conversational partner.
* Help with the technology once it’s recorded.
* Transcribe the audio for use in publishing a book.
* Edit the audio into something listenable.
* Edit images with music and stories to create a digital story.

It doesn’t matter if you’re recording your own story or someone else, you may need help with some aspect of the project. Chances are the information to get you started is here on Create Your Life Story but maybe you need someone a little more hands on. By working with someone on this project you don’t have to know or do everything that’s necessary but can concentrate on what you do best and allow someone else to pick up on where you struggle.
The important thing is to get started on your project then move methodically through to completion and having help at strategic points will enable your Life Story project to avoid the stagnating that can bring on despair and possibly missing the opportunities you have. Handballing parts of the project means you’ll keep focused and have someone the help you keep moving forward.
People who can help you
We all live in communities and within yours there are people who can assist you with your project. Depending on your needs you can consider help from various sources.

* Family members
* Local community
* Friends
* Students
* Professional

Family members
Anyone in your family could be suitable to assist but the advantage of having someone at least one circle of influence away from you, like a niece/nephew, grandchild or other relative will helps to make sure that shared knowledge isn’t taken for granted and all the interesting topics are covered. Also the issues that families have tend to be lessened once you’re a little more distant.

Possibly a combination of close and more distant relatives could bring an interesting comparison of topics from the intimate to the more general and may be well worth considering.
Local community
WIthin the local community you may know people who have the skills to sit in conversation or deal with the more technical aspects of a Life Story. These people could be part of your network or within groups like...
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Create Your Life Story : Helping You Record a Lifetime of StoriesBy Ian Kath