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    Snaps, Scraps & Snippets of the Past and Present: How to Retrieve the Lost Pictures of Your Past
    Snaps, Scraps & Snippets of the Past and Present: How to Retrieve the Lost Pictures of Your Past
    Snaps, Scraps & Snippets of the Past and Present: How to Retrieve the Lost Pictures of Your Past
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    Snaps, Scraps & Snippets of the Past and Present: How to Retrieve the Lost Pictures of Your Past

    By Lois J. Funk

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    This nonfiction, how-to-memoir, encourages readers as well as writers to pick up their pens and share their own stories. Using a brand new set of writer's tools, seasoned as well as beginning writers learn how to show, not tell, their stories in any genre they choose and, just as crucial, how to sort and save what is important while dis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRIT Publishing
    Release dateApr 4, 2014
    ISBN9780692760741
    Snaps, Scraps & Snippets of the Past and Present: How to Retrieve the Lost Pictures of Your Past
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    Lois J. Funk

    Born and raised in central Illinois, Lois J. Funk has traveled extensively outside the U.S. and incorporates many of her travel experiences in her writings. Her goal is to encourage readers and writers alike to share their own life stories.

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