December 2020 - Forever Young Autobiographies

Best of 2020: Best articles of 2020 about writing advice + writing tips

Best 2020 highlights on using music and memories, writing painful stories, online writing tools and new podcast

The end of a crazy 12 months is nearly here and what a year 2020 has been!

Indeed I’m counting my blessings that my family and I will be allowed interstate to see my parents for the first time in over a year.

So I’ll be taking a break from the website until the new year to relax and get ready for more writ i ng in 2021.

But before I head off I’m leaving you with the best of 2020 articles from Forever Young Autobiographies.

These have been read hundreds of times because they are helpful to plan, write, polish and publish an autobiography, memoir, biography or other life-story project.

Certainly take a read over the next few weeks while you switch off and savour the holiday period.

OK let’s jump in …

Best life stories of 2020: Award-winning books to read this holiday season

What books a life-story coach is reading and reviewing into 2021

If you want to be a better writer try reading a book.

And if you want to be a truly better writer read the best books!

Indeed that’s the mission I’ve set myself for the latest Forever Young Autobiographies life-story reading list.

The best life stories of 2020 list features writers from Australia, United Kingdom and the USA.

And it includes first-time writers and bestsellers.

Plus the best bit is I’ll be writing a review for each book during 2021 with tips to help us all when we sit down to write.

So dive in and take a look at what autobiographies, memoirs, biographies and other life-stories made the cut for the best life stories of 2020 …

Book review: New York Times Best Seller The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom

A quick and easy review of the Grove Press memoir set in New Orleans East

The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom rounds out the Forever Young Autobiographies book review series for the year.

And what a way to finish!

This bestselling memoir was put out in 2019 by Grove Press and tells the story of many people, many families but one house – the Yellow House.

Indeed Broom’s family home in New Orleans East became the centrepoint of many worlds from the 1960s to its drawn-out demise after Hurricane Katrina.

Most notably the story won the National Book Awards 2019 for Nonfiction, was a New York Times Best Seller and named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2019.

So let’s find out more about Broom, The Yellow House and what we can takeaway as life-story writers …