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    Evelyn replied to the topic The Art of Telling True Stories in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years, 2 months ago

    @bama-rose Wow that’s really cool! I don’t mind long answers at all! That’s kinda what I was hoping for with this thread: people ranting about people and their stories. (:

    @emberynus-the-dragonslayer I suppose there is no way not to be inspired by “true stories” or “real life” when writing fiction. Is there any specific thing that is playing into your current story?

    @eden-anderson Aww, thanks fren. <3 I try. 😉

    When I made this thread I actually had your signature quote in mind… 🙂

    I always used to think that I didn’t have a very interesting life or history or ancestry. My life was boring, my parents life was boring and my grandparents life had been boring too and theirs before them. But I can remember one night, sitting down with my Dad and asking him questions about his grandparents. He told me all kinds of interesting stories of when they was growing up and starting a family. How they really struggled financially during the Great Depression and how it really affected his grandma and I started to think, “Wow, there really is a story here! This is super interesting.” It wasn’t like anything mind blowing or crazy but there was still so much there to learn from.

    Ugh yes! I had the same thing happen! I had never really thought about my ancestry or the experiences my family had, but I started a couple years ago to ask family simply questions (actually because of the wedding this past week (WHICH (before you ask) WAS AMAZING BY THE WAY (AND WE ALL CRIED SO HARD! (We were all sobbing about of happiness. XD))) (so many parenthesizes XD) Anyways just this week I was discovering the stories of my extended family. It was so neat! Everyone has a story to tell. (:

    I’m actually 1/4 Spanish (as in Spain…) and a mix of Irish (hence my last name) and German and English, so I’ve heard whiffs and bits of stories about those places (very vague because its a bit far out) and then childhood memories from my grandparents and great uncles and aunts and great grandparents. I’ve been working on a family tree and it stretches out to the early 16th century in Yorkshore. (My great(seven times…) grandfather was in the original continental congress and wrote letters to George Washington which are now published and somewhere on Amazon… XD) I’m planning to keep working on the family tree. (Beyond just adding my sister-in-law and her family. 😉 )

    It’s so neat learning things about family that you never knew!

    I once had a story idea of collecting childhood memories from family members and working them into a story arch of a girl visiting her grandmother and learning about a quilt and what each scrap came from. (i.e. graduation dress, baby blanket, old hat, etc.) I never carried it out but I learned a lot of interesting things about my mother and grandmother in the process of thinking about it. (:

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