1. Telling Your Life Story

2. Outline Example : Betty Chiang Booming development of memoir
A different point of view
A Stolen Life: A Memoir
The Christmas Box
Conclusion
Questions

3. About Betty Chiang
Without writing skills
Self-publishing

4. Immigrant : A Memoir By Betty Chiang
Purpose : passing down her story
Professional look
Detail experiences

5. Booming development A desire to pass on wisdom
Affordable access to technology

6. A different point of view
Elizabeth Fishel
Teaching memoir writing
Oprahfication
Aging population
Available self-publishing tools

7. Oprahfication
Oprah Winfrey
American talk show host
Personal sharing

8. A Stolen Life: A Memoir Author : Jaycee Dugard
Sexual abuse by pedophilia

9. The Christmas Box Author : Richard Paul Evans
A Christmas story written for his children
Purpose : convey father’s love to his children
Content : A widow and her son

10. Conclusion
Good news
Share your life
Build up a model for posterity

11. Questions
What’s the most memorable event that is worth writing in your memoir ?
Would you like to share your memoir with people you are not familiar to ? Why or why not ?
What are benefits of publishing your own memoir for your next generation?

12. Can you find out other ways to tell us your story except publishing a memoir ?
What are self-publishing advantages and disadvantages ?
Which way do you prefer to, traditional publishing or self-publishing ? Why ?