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Tag: Lois Penney

  • Look at the picture

    Look at the picture

    Writing about the past… sometimes it seems impossible that we could tell our ancestors stories, particularly those of whom we only have a blurry photo and a few details, gleaned from a genealogical website. Here Lois Elsden writes about her great-grandmother, using a photo as a starting point: If you look at the picture below you…

  • More thoughts on CNF (nothing to do with French railways…)

    More thoughts on CNF (nothing to do with French railways…)

    Following on from Dragon Eorðdraca, aka Richard Kefford’s thoughts on creative non-fiction, CNF (which he comically compared to SNCF – Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer), Dragon Brimdraca, Lois Elsden shares her thoughts: In our excellent writers meeting this afternoon a new phrase was brought up, ‘creative nonfiction’ which most of us had never heard of before but…

  • Writing family history… how did they meet?

    Writing family history… how did they meet?

    Writing about family history, and making it come alive from the genealogical details and family trees, and census returns is a challenge. There are so many unknowns; how for example, did Lois Elsden’s great grandparents meet, and then, defying convention and their families, live together and have five children? How courageous they were, but how…