Legacy : A Step-By-Step Guide to
Writing Personal History by Linda
Spence
A Gift Only You Can Give Your Descendants
Linda Spences Legacy proves to be just that: the creation of a family
heirloom that money couldnt buy. Through a series of thought-provoking
questions about each phase in human life, Spence helps readers record
their personal history, think back to feelings that any number of snapshots
could never capture, and reflect upon their lives. What events occurred
during your childhood? What did you like most about school? What do you
wish your parents had done for you? The text includes sample essays by
the author and quotations by other writers to encourage your muse.
Personal Review: Legacy : A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing
Personal History by Linda Spence
This book is a step-by-step guide to writing your life's stories as a legacy
for other family members. The author has worked with seniors for many

years, gathering their stories and helping them document their life
histories. In this book, she presents a simple methodology that anyone
can follow to help them get over the hardest step in the process-getting
started. In the introduction, she urges the reader to set aside some time
and space for writing, in a notebook, on an audio cassette, on a typewriter,
or on a computer, whichever is most comfortable and convenient. Then
she provides lists of reflective questions to get the juices flowing. The
questions are organized by topic, including earliest memories, school life,
young adulthood, marriage, children, grandchildren, and later adult years.
Interspersed with these questions are quotations from unknown as well as
famous published memoirists whose writing illustrates the topic at hand.
Everybody has had life experiences which are fascinating, amazing, or
potentially edifying for others. The trouble is, so few of these stories ever
get passed on because it's so hard to actually sit down and write them.
With this book, Spence makes the task seem easy. Writers can sit down
with the book, open to a page at random, and begin writing responses to
her prompts. Or they can begin with the first question and work
methodically through the book. Each question can easily require an entire
essay to answer in full. Once the individual essays start collecting, the raw
material is ready to edit into a book. Or, the answers can simply be left as
drafts in the writer's notebook to be passed on to others as a legacy. It
should be noted that Spence's goal is to help readers to document their life
histories in a positive way so as to create a product that can be passed on
to other family members, rather than to explore negative memories as a
means of self-growth. The book is not about style, grammar, or esthetic
qualities of writing. Spence finds it more important for writers to use their
own voices naturally rather than to adopt formal stylistic attributes. The
book would make an excellent gift for older family members who have
stories to tell but just haven't gotten around to writing them down yet.
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