Finish a life story: How to know when your project is finished

Finish a life story: How to know when your project is finished. Women jumping in the air with arms outstretched after reaching the top of a mountain that overlooks a lake. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels.

Ask Nicola Q&A: Amazing ways to finish your story today

Welcome to Forever Young Autobiographies – Ask Nicola.

Each week I get queries about creating life stories for family and friends.

Today’s Ask Nicola question is:

How do you know when you are finished a life-story project?

So let’s dive into a few key considerations to finish a life story …

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The Mother Wound: A multi award-winning debut memoir by Amani Haydar

The Mother Wound: A multi award-winning debut memoir by Amani Haydar. Book cover of The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar, Pan Macmillan Australia, and a portrait of Haydar. Photos by Pan Macmillan Australia and Jason McCormack.

Book review: How a Sydney lawyer is confronted with murder and motherhood

The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar is a memoir about strong women and motherhood.

All of sudden, when Haydar was five months pregnant, she lost her mother in a brutal act of domestic violence perpetrated by her father.

A lawyer by trade, Haydar’s Pan Macmillan Australia read won the Australian Book Industry Awards 2022 Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year.

So keep reading to find out what her book is all about, what makes it a powerful read and what we can learn for our own life-story projects

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