Summer is flying by and my plan to write my life story is evaporating faster than the water in my birdbath. How can I still accomplish something this summer?

Here is a great answer from Betty. She wrote this in an email, and it is a perfect solution. I’ll let Betty explain it:

In the AARP Magazine I read an excellent article titled "Thinking About Memoir," by Abigal Thomas. She teaches memoir-writing seminars nation wide. She has inspired me. One of her writing exercises has the student "take any ten years of your life and reduce them to two pages. Every sentence has to be three words long--not two, not four, but three words long."

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