Month: February 2024

Feature article: Helping you create a life story super fast!

Feature article: Helping you create a life story super fast! Woman sitting next to a cafe window wearing a white cotton shirt and wooden-bead necklace while reading a magazine. Photo by Rawpixel from Pexels

Amazing reasons why you should write a feature story

A feature article is the surefire trick to creating a whole life story super fast!

As a print journalist and life-story coach I have written many over the years.

So I know how powerful and far reaching they can be to preserve, celebrate and share life stories in no time.

Unlike a full-blown autobiography, creating a feature article about your life or a loved one’s life has many advantages…

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My Dream Time: Tennis memoir by Wimbledon and Aus Open star Ash Barty

My Dream Time: Tennis memoir by Wimbledon and Aus Open star Ash Barty. My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and teamwork by Ash Barty, HarperCollins, and a portrait of Barty. Photos by HarperCollins and Nic Morley.
My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and teamwork (left) by Ash Barty (right), HarperCollins. Photos by HarperCollins and Nic Morley.

Book review: Australian Book Industry Awards winner about an Aussie girl from Ipswich

I started My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and teamwork by Ash Barty AO during the middle of an Aussie summer when the Australian Open was being played.

It certainly was a fitting time to read this story by the 2022 Australian Open champ, which charts her tennis story from age 5 when she picked up a racquet in Queensland.

Notably the HarperCollins life story nabbed the Australian Book Industry Awards 2023 Biography Book of the Year and has been a huge bestseller.

So keep reading to discover more about this First Nations’ Australian, her memorable story plus what it can teach us for our own creating…

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