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What are your biggest obstacles to telling your story?

I find it hard to believe anyone will look at any of our scrapbooks later and wish that we'd used LESS words...
 
HeatherB said:
My struggle is more about how much of my life I want to (or should) publicize. My journaling is usually very descriptive, and I almost always have a personal text (for my printed pages) and a web text (for loading online). My web text takes out all the descriptive information such as names of people and places and even takes out descriptive characteristics that I'm not comfortable sharing online.

I guess my struggle is not one about journaling, but about maintaining my privacy while still being able to enjoy posting my pages online and getting feedback from my fellow scrappers.

And this struggle isn't just with scrapping, I have the same privacy struggle when I am deciding what if anything am I posting to Facebook. I have friends who are interested in hearing about our lives, but I still don't want to name names online because of personal safety, etc.
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Ditto Heather... I agree re making pages and the story is personal that you do not want to post on line.
 
toriloowho said:
If you're concerned about privacy (which I totally get... I am, too)... there's always the blur tool. It's not necessarily the prettiest, but I have been known to blur things out before posting them. My husband is adamant that he does not want his picture on the internet, so if I post a layout with him (which is rare anyway because he avoids the camera like the plague), I blur his face out. I blur names of schools, or sometimes cities, my kids' friends, etc.
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Tori, my hubby is the same way ... most times people think I am married to a ghost :) I think to err on the side of caution is a good thing though and when I do get a photo of my hubby I am thrilled :) as he likes to take photos but rarely likes to be in them as well!
 
scrapsandsass said:
I'm a little bit in love with Ricky Gervais these days. I saw this little video about storytelling, and I think it is just as pertinent to scrapbooking as with any other storytelling.

There is an f-bomb in the very beginning, but that is it.

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3016916...s-tells-a-story-about-how-he-learned-to-write
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Kim: I can't stand him as an actor, don't really like him in general....but he has some amazing pearls of wisdom like this-
I have the same edge thing with Russel Brand, I despise what he is as a person, his humor isnt humor to me, but he says some very very inteligent things about the state of this country/the world and politics....

I find the writing of a relatively new British writer, Angela Young, amazing in that way of describing the ordinary and making it trascendental....her first book is called Speaking of Love, I ll see if I can find it in my house and send it to you :)



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I struggle with the journaling also- and as I look back on my old scrapbook pages- it truly is the stories I am drawn to every time- so I know it is important. I think for me it is a privacy issue, a time issue (I tend to do this last and am sometimes under a deadline and just want to get it done), and also the fact that often our lives are routine and kind of boring... I look forward to the tutorials & resources Laura spoke of above!
 
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