| There are more than six billion people on the | | | | writing is the taking of what has been most |
| planet and I am a firm believer that every one of | | | | profound in any one person's existence and |
| us has a story to tell. We all do the best we can | | | | bringing it to life on the page so that future |
| with what we've got, spend most of our lives | | | | generations can intimately experience it. What |
| trying to determine what is most important, face | | | | could be worth more? |
| huge obstacles, and learn from our worst | | | | Have you thought of what it would be like to get |
| mistakes. So how strange is it that on a planet | | | | to know one of your relatives and see the world |
| with so many stories, every one of them is so | | | | through their eyes? What it would be like to know |
| important? I'm not implying that every one of | | | | someone who is now lost to you? To have pages |
| those stories is important to everyone. My point | | | | and pages of their life at your fingertips to revisit |
| is that every one of those stories is important to | | | | in a moment? This is the power of a memoir, of |
| someone. To the person whose story is being | | | | legacy writing. |
| told. And probably to those closest to that person: | | | | I can think of no better gift than the gift of |
| their family. | | | | immortality. And that is what legacy writing is. |
| Also called memoir writing, legacy writing is | | | | Your memoir is a chance for your grandchildren |
| probably the most important writing we do in life. | | | | to get to know you. For your sisters and |
| Legacy writing is the taking of wisdom and | | | | brothers to see into your soul. For your friends to |
| spinning it onto the page in a way that leads the | | | | cherish you now and after you are gone. Legacy |
| reader down the path to a conclusion by letting | | | | writing is your opportunity to let others share in |
| them live in the shoes of the storyteller. Legacy | | | | your journey. |