Write Your Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide to Write Your Life Story Fast: A Step-by-Step Guide to Write Your Life Story Fast

By Lauren Hunter

Do you desire to leave a legacy of your story for your family? Has your church asked you to share your journey of faith? Are you planning to retire and want to share your career story? This simple playbook can help you write a ‘slice’ of your life story quickly and effectively. By charting events related to your family, faith, or career, you can write your life story fast with this concise step-by-step guide. Writing your entire life into one story is unrealistic; focusing your story on a powerful theme present in your life using the techniques in this book is completely achievable. 

In Write Your Journey, you’ll discover: 

* How to isolate common themes in each of your stories for maximum impact
* How to capture the essence of your unique writing voice 
* How to follow three-act structure to create an impactful life story
* How to outline, draft, edit, and complete your story fast
* How to use your family, faith, or career story to bless others
* How to distribute your story within your family, community, and beyond

Write Your Journey will help you detail and write your life story quickly in a way that is fresh, deliberate, and unique. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Veritable Books
• Release date: Nov 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781735183732

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Endorsements for Write Your Journey

"This I know for sure: everyone has a powerful story, and this book will help you write yours. Write Your Journey offers clear, simple, and inspiring guidance on how to share your legacy. It’s like having a writing coach sitting at your elbow, providing wisdom and motivation as you discover the power of putting your own story into words. Highly recommended."

—Keri Wyatt Kent, author, speaker, and publishing coach;

Founder, A Powerful Story writing and editing services

This is a wonderful guide to help people write a slice of their life. With a fantastic format, this book is laid out to be helpful and encouraging. The wonderful recommendations, probing questions, and simplified three-act story structure will certainly help prompt each writer's mind as they tackle their unique story. All-in-all, a wonderful guide! 

—BJ Taylor, author of Writing True Stories: Using the

Winning Formula P MS to a T

"The steps in Write Your Journey are approachable and relatable. Processing our stories by writing them provides a meaningful way to recover, restore, and relate to others. Through Lauren's 'fast' approach, people will feel less intimidated and encouraged to get started." 

—Katherine Beim-Esche, Director of Fellowship

of Former Christian Scientists

Write Your Journey

A Step-by-Step Guide to Write Your Life Story Fast

Lauren Hunter

Write Your Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide to Write Your Life Story Fast

Copyright © 2021 by Lauren Hunter

All Rights Reserved

Veritable Books

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This title is also available in ebook format wherever books are sold online.

Cover design: Hannah Linder Designs

Interior design: Catherine Posey

Book Editing: Leslie Wilson

Author photograph by Tammy Stark

Graphics by Jacob Hunter

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021922562

ISBN: 978-1-7351837-4-9 (paperback) Amazon

Contents

Stand Still - a Poem

Introduction

1. Journey to Your Past

2. Journey Through Your Life’s Themes

3. Journey into Your Unique Voice

4. Journey Toward Your Story’s Structure

5. Journey to Your Story’s Composition

6. Journey Through the Editing Process

7. Journey Within Your Community and Beyond

These Years - a Poem

Acknowledgments

Recommended Resources

Other Books by Lauren Hunter:

Leaving Christian Science:

10 Stories of New Faith in Jesus Christ

This book is dedicated to everyone who has ever been on a journey—whether long or short, difficult or easy. For each of us has a story to tell.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

―Oscar Wilde

Stand Still - a Poem

There are no minutes.

There are no days.

Time etches on—

Lengthening, stayed.

Can't get it back.

No clutch and release.

Hold tight, run through

Sandy grains, indeed.

Stand still.

My heart undone—

Captured, rendered—

Not enough.

Time, come back.

No—move forward.

Ebb of my heart

Conflicted, distracted.

Treasured spots,

Rushed and ruled

By the clock,

Unattainable, immovable.

Moment, now—

Today remembered.

Hang true, hold fast

To this life, this journey.

—Lauren Hunter

Introduction

Everyone loves the power a good story has to move us. We seek movies with gripping tales of lovers separated and reunited, we value lost children being found, we connect with the reality that fatal illnesses often bring about the cure for an obscure disease. While