You can take a gallop back in time, to the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and discover how you participated in and contributed to the events and trends of those times. Yes, if you were 7 or 77, what you did, thought, felt, and witnessed mattered – to history! Anchor your memoir in time with historical context, adding depth and color to help your future readers understand “where you’re coming from.”
In my book Making History I’ve divided history up into categories that make it easy to explore. The categories are:
Economics & Politics (money and power colors everything)
The Social Fabric (race, gender, morality – so much has changed)
International Scene (we’re all in this together)
Technology & Science (remember BEFORE the internet?)
Crimes & Disasters (bad stuff can make good stories) Arts & Entertainment (what do you sing in the shower?)
Lifestyles (Food, Fashion, Sports & Games, etc.)
The Weird and Trivial (language changes, Scandals, Pets & Animals, the Paranormal, etc)
If you don’t want to read the whole book (which has a lot of good stuff in it, like stories and a simple and fun 5-step system for writing memoirs, plus other goodies), you can buy e-book downloads here with extensive detailed timelines (from 1930 thru 1989) in each category, plus lists of penetrating questions and suggested topics to get you thinking and remembering. Click here to get e-book downloads.
Explore the many, many stories of our fascinating pasts – and how we ALL make up history.
Technorati Tags: sharing, history, past, learn, Making History, events, trends, memoir, future, economics, politics, social, fabric, science, technology, international, crimes, disaster, arts, entertainment, lifestyle, weird, trivial
