Each month, we offer our top five writing tips and tricks.
The writing tips are offered to help you jump--start or enhance your family history writing and hone your writing skills.
Choose one, two, or all five to incorporate into your writing this month.
We will offer new tips every month, so keep coming back for new ideas!
December 2025 Writing Tips
- Round out your subject by including hobbies, interests, sports, or special skills
- Keep your audience in mind. Who do you hope will read this story?
- Read what you have written out loud. Does it sound like you? Do you need to correct some transitions? This is a great way to stop problems
- Take of advantage of forums, guidelines, and online programs to help you polish your writing style.
- Context is essential when writing about the events, occupations, skills, and equipment from our and our ancestors' pasts. Keep in mind that the effect of progress is to make many things obsolete, so it is up to the writer to describe in detail what out-of-date terms mean to keep things in context.