Life Stories With Patti Miller

Whilst listening to the radio very early one morning, I became increasingly interested in an interview with Patti Miller, the author of a number books including The Memoir Book, Child, Whatever The Gods Do, The Last One Who Remembers and Writing Your Life. She is an established writer and ‘Australia’s most experienced life–writing teacher’.

It was a most enlightening and interesting interview. For many people the mere thought of writing about their Life Experiences is daunting. However, Patti said creating a ‘patchwork’ of stories is far easier than sitting down to write a huge book! Even at that hour, there must have been people around Australia, inspired to ‘get writing’!

During the interview Patti gave many tips, and also suggested that people could start by drawing a plan of their childhood home and ‘going’ in their mind to each room to write about experiences and events.

The workshops that Patti conducts are around Australia as well as in locations such as Fiji and Paris! What a great way of travelling with a ‘purpose’.

Patti says, ‘Life writing is inclusive. Everyone has a story of his or her own experience of being in the world. Whatever your achievements or challenges or pain, your story is worth telling - and worth telling in a powerful and absorbing way.
Time after time, the thousands of Life Stories I have read and worked on reveal that each individual being is miraculous and unique, and that at the same time we share so much as we travel through our lives’

And Patti’s thoughts on retirement?
‘I did remark the other day, that I can't imagine I would ever retire because writing is my life. It's not just what I do, but in large part, what I am. A writer never stops considering what it is like to be a human being in this puzzling world. To stop writing would be like deciding to stop breathing’

For more information, including writing in Paris!! Please visit: http://www.lifestories.com.au