Line Starters

• I used to ___________, but now I _____________.

• I remember...I remember...( or start with I don't remember , I don't remember)

• If I had to do it again, I would_______________.

• A saying I always heard around the house was ___________________.

• The first time I heard the song____________________, i was (  or we were)______________.

• _________ is the sort of person who________________.

• One rule I never live by is_____________________________.

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Ten Ways to a Draft:

1) Rereading a notebook
2)Freelisiting
3)Line Starters
4) Memory Chain
5)Clustering
6)Photographs
7)Mapmaking
8) Personal search( interviewing, surverying, research)
9) timeline( subject over time against backdrop of history)
10)Felt Sense