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Your Life Is An Epic Story Waiting To Be Told. Will You Tell it? The Art of Memorialising - Audio Newsletter
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Welcome to The Art of Memorialising - an audio newsletter by Peter Billingham from Death Goes Digital and Memorable Words Eulogy Writing services bringing you the latest news on digital immortality, digital legacy, digital life curation and all things #Deathtech.
Sponsoring this edition is 4everstory
A lifetime comprises a thousand stories. 4everstory is a secure and private digital story platform. 4everstory specialises in capturing digital memories and preserving special moments in a single and secure location. 4everstory encourages sharing and connecting family memories, and life experiences, strengthening family bonds, family traditions, and is a simple way to continue telling life stories.
What Will You Find In This Issue?
* Telling your life story using the digital heritage app After Cloud.
* Bringing artistic design to obituaries is start up Murial
* Memorial NFT’s? Remembering our loved ones in the Metaverse.
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash
Your Life Is An Epic Story Waiting To Be Told. Will You Tell it?
Once upon a time …
‘He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.’ ( The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway)
‘In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.’ (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald)
How would you write the first line of your life story?
A good life story captivates heart and mind.
Stories inspire us. Encourage us. Make us laugh and cry.
Stories make sense of life when everything is senseless.
Gripping, captivating and memorable stories, says author Donald Miller, are about, ‘A character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.’
Is that you? Is your life is an epic story waiting to be told? Now, more than ever, telling it is in the palm of your hand.
It’s challenging and demanding to write our life story.
I know. I just published a memoir.
Documenting lives for eternity - our digital heritage - is available with the click of a thumb. But will people write it?
What Is The Shape of Your Life Story?
Famous storyteller, Kurt Vonnegut, pens quirky, complex books. He believes stories have shapes. Especially life stories.
He suggests the basic structure of all stories come down to eight story shapes. This infographic explains them all.
As a eulogy writer, I often see and use the ‘Man In A Hole’ and ‘Redemptive’ epic story shape.
The ‘Man In A Hole’ story need not be about a man or a hole! It is a story of someone who gets into trouble and gets out of it again. The story has a happy-sad-happy trajectory.
Many identify with the ‘Redemptive Story.’ The story shape starts off bad then ends good.
Another life story shape coined by Joseph Campbell is ‘The Hero's Journey.’ This story involves a normal person who goes on an epic adventure, hits a pivotal crisis, wins a victory, and then comes home changed.
Which is your life story shape?
Digital legacy platforms enable the telling of life stories. But will they be told?
After seeing too many ‘Dear Dad’ or ‘Dear Mum’ life story journals empty, I’m not convinced writing your life story online will happen for many.
Unless …
Unless an army of story tellers could help write those stories? Now, maybe there’s an opportunity for the future?
And they all lived happily after after …
Startup Spotlights - AfterCloud.co.uk and Murial.Life
AfterCloud.co.uk
We profiled After Cloud in August 2021. What a difference a year can make committed to a vision of building tools for digital heritage.
After Cloud celebrates and shares individual life moments. Helps to tell our unique life story preserving our family history.
Approved by ORCHA (Organisation for the Review of Health and Care Apps) and part of the UK’s NHS (National Health Service) digital app library, After Cloud is being used and adapted in many care situations.
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Welcome to The Art of Memorialising - an audio newsletter by Peter Billingham from Death Goes Digital and Memorable Words Eulogy Writing services bringing you the latest news on digital immortality, digital legacy, digital life curation and all things #Deathtech.
Sponsoring this edition is 4everstory
A lifetime comprises a thousand stories. 4everstory is a secure and private digital story platform. 4everstory specialises in capturing digital memories and preserving special moments in a single and secure location. 4everstory encourages sharing and connecting family memories, and life experiences, strengthening family bonds, family traditions, and is a simple way to continue telling life stories.
What Will You Find In This Issue?
* Telling your life story using the digital heritage app After Cloud.
* Bringing artistic design to obituaries is start up Murial
* Memorial NFT’s? Remembering our loved ones in the Metaverse.
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash
Your Life Is An Epic Story Waiting To Be Told. Will You Tell it?
Once upon a time …
‘He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.’ ( The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway)
‘In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.’ (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald)
How would you write the first line of your life story?
A good life story captivates heart and mind.
Stories inspire us. Encourage us. Make us laugh and cry.
Stories make sense of life when everything is senseless.
Gripping, captivating and memorable stories, says author Donald Miller, are about, ‘A character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.’
Is that you? Is your life is an epic story waiting to be told? Now, more than ever, telling it is in the palm of your hand.
It’s challenging and demanding to write our life story.
I know. I just published a memoir.
Documenting lives for eternity - our digital heritage - is available with the click of a thumb. But will people write it?
What Is The Shape of Your Life Story?
Famous storyteller, Kurt Vonnegut, pens quirky, complex books. He believes stories have shapes. Especially life stories.
He suggests the basic structure of all stories come down to eight story shapes. This infographic explains them all.
As a eulogy writer, I often see and use the ‘Man In A Hole’ and ‘Redemptive’ epic story shape.
The ‘Man In A Hole’ story need not be about a man or a hole! It is a story of someone who gets into trouble and gets out of it again. The story has a happy-sad-happy trajectory.
Many identify with the ‘Redemptive Story.’ The story shape starts off bad then ends good.
Another life story shape coined by Joseph Campbell is ‘The Hero's Journey.’ This story involves a normal person who goes on an epic adventure, hits a pivotal crisis, wins a victory, and then comes home changed.
Which is your life story shape?
Digital legacy platforms enable the telling of life stories. But will they be told?
After seeing too many ‘Dear Dad’ or ‘Dear Mum’ life story journals empty, I’m not convinced writing your life story online will happen for many.
Unless …
Unless an army of story tellers could help write those stories? Now, maybe there’s an opportunity for the future?
And they all lived happily after after …
Startup Spotlights - AfterCloud.co.uk and Murial.Life
AfterCloud.co.uk
We profiled After Cloud in August 2021. What a difference a year can make committed to a vision of building tools for digital heritage.
After Cloud celebrates and shares individual life moments. Helps to tell our unique life story preserving our family history.
Approved by ORCHA (Organisation for the Review of Health and Care Apps) and part of the UK’s NHS (National Health Service) digital app library, After Cloud is being used and adapted in many care situations.
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