What’s a Story Worth?

More than money can buy.

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This Mother’s Day, Shelley gifted me a subscription to Storyworth because . . . everyone has a story worth sharing.

Storyworth is a year of storytelling via weekly prompts that arrive via email. I believe these are questions meant to stir up long-buried memories, unearth secrets long hidden, or perhaps promote the sharing of perspectives previously unknown with family, friends, and loved ones.

This was more than, and never meant to be, a last-minute gift idea. It’s heartfelt and thoughtful and I know Shelley pondered gifting me this for quite some time.

Perhaps all the stories I told her when we were out bushwalking in Carnarvon Gorge recently inspired her to stop thinking about it and just do it.

But Storyworth is more than just a subscription to an online tool. Storyworth collects and stores all those stories, every response to the weekly prompts and then at the end of the year preserves them in a beautifully bound book.

And . . . Voilà!

A memoir is easily created.

Wow! I’m all in.

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As Shelley and I explored and discussed exactly what it was that Storyworth offered, she insisted it was not to be separate from my blog, but rather complimentary to it and, therefore, the stories I share in Storyworth, I’ll also post, but with one proviso.

I won’t be sharing any stories I choose to include that have already been posted here on my blog. For example, I’ve already included a rewrite of My Mother’s Earring in response to a question regarding the strangest thing that has ever happened to me.

That aside, I’m excited and thrilled to be undertaking this year-long writing adventure and my first memoir story will publish tomorrow morning.