When does your story take place? Do you want to do a whole life overview or concentrate on a specific time period? You're when like the other keys will have some overlap, but as a master key in setting up your quickstart memoir. Remember while memoirs can be entire life stories, they can also be narrowly focused on a short time period. This Quick Start technique works for any length of memoir. You get to decide what time period in your life stands out the most What would you like to focus on?

Here's a couple tips. If you're working on someone else's story, What memories tend to come up repeatedly when you're talking to them. This is often a great clue to help you focus your wind key. Your win might be a historical time period, particularly if you are telling the story Have a grandparent or other older relative, perhaps even someone who is no longer alive. This technique will work for that also. Another example of a great win focus might be childhood memories.

There are countless television shows, movies and books written about childhood memories and there are some of our favorite recollections. Many of the stories we like to relate around the family dinner table or at holiday gatherings. Start with the phrase remember when this will help you as you're honing in on some of the the time period that you would like to share. Remember that first car your wedding day, first job when you first moved out on your own. Take Pick there's a wealth of information yeah under the key when You're when could involve family life, personal events that charted the course of your own life, World History, where you were there. Tell the story.

Thank you for listening to the class so far. I hope that you're enjoying it and making great progress on your project. I encourage you to share it in the comments section so that you can inspire other people and learn some new ideas from the other folks taking the class. Have a great time.