Families Writing

By Peter R. Stillman

Book Overview

In this very practical book, Stillman details why and how to record words that go straight to the heart-the simple, vital words that will speak to those you care most about and to their descendants many years from now.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898793459
• ISBN13: 9780898793451
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A gem for families and teachers

This is a real gem of a book. I love reading and writing. I teach English as a foreign language, and I have dipped into this book time and time again for ideas and inspiration. This book has lots of excellent ideas for using writing to communicate between generations within a family and how to build communities of writers, or just how to have fun with various writing games. Author Peter Stillman is clearly a good writer himself: unpretentious and perspicacious, with a great sense of humour which is never far from the surface, especially in Stillman's own pen drawings; yet the tone is sometimes moving (as in the letter the author penned to his recently deceased father). A profound book that examines the power and value of communicating via writing.