For this class segment, you'll decide what emphasis you want for your life memory project. What is the overall story of your journey? challenges and Durham's triumphs failure? What parts of that story are the most important? Are there parts that you'd rather not talk about? You get to decide this too and your decision about what to share?
Maybe you want to emphasize some of these challenges and triumphs with a few failures thrown in. After all, they're how we learn right? Perhaps there are life lessons that you want your children and your grandchildren to learn from you and years from now. Maybe the what you want to share is travel experiences, the people that you've met along the way the adventures that you've had, you can inspire your readers in their own adventures. If you're telling someone else's story What do you remember about them? list their children and grandchildren where they live their education, careers, military likes and dislikes, major life events talents, you can even create a timeline as an extra tip to keep you on track in this what section of sharing family events.
Something sometimes you may choose to focus your what on military service or experience or perhaps even having lived through a war torn area or in a geographic area that has experienced a lot of strife. Here's an extra tip for that section. Don't just write about the major events during that time. also put in sensory details. The the what it what you saw, what you heard, what you feel, what you could touch and taste. These details are important.
This is yours. Story your amazing life. Whether you decide that you're what is full of family, travel, or crazy adventures, or maybe just the best way to catch a fish, you get to determine the focus and the what, as the key to telling your story. In your full memoir project, you can certainly have more than one what, but for the sake of a quick start to end a solid structure, narrow it down to your main one, the others can simply play supporting roles. But whatever you do, pick a photograph or two and put that up on your project board to illustrate your what and keep you on track.