Coffee With Jude- new video series

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Writing memoir is so much fun and so good for you. It is easy to have a book in several months or a year with just an hour a day. Try it you'll like it.

This coming week I will be posting my second installment of Coffee with Jude. The question addressed is: how do you make your story engaging and interesting?

Well, if you write a long story about your backpacking trip to Europe describing all the tourist attractions you visited and all the concrete events of the trip it will be boring to a reader unless you find the inner story. This is the juice that propels the events. Maybe you came to realize while you were traveling that you were very lonely and so you found yourself talking to strangers, making friends, and learning amazing things about them. Then maybe you decided you wanted to find a life-time partner as a result of these connections. Talk about how you changed as a result of travelling and now you have an “inner story”. The outer story is all about the solid events that could be filmed with a camera. Watch the video on youtube here about the inner story:

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