Now that we’re in open Beta, we’re beefing up our social media presence, starting with our Facebook page, Retrospect Media. So far we are primarily posting the weekly prompt, but we will soon add news, lines we liked, links, and items of interest about boomers and storytelling.
So like us on Facebook! You can get to our page by clicking the link above, or the Facebook icon at the bottom of the Retrospect site. Feel free to share our posts, as well as your stories, with your Facebook friends.
Congrats to two of our Beta testers who were honored in the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year awards! Barbara won gold and bronze in the Literary and Historical categories (respectively) for her World War II-era novel Even in Darkness, while Charles was a finalist in the Mystery category for his counterculture novel Bowl Full of Nails.
Of course, you don’t have to be an award-winning novelist to tell your stories on Retrospect; you just have to remember and start putting them down in your own voice. As we like to say, writing style is less important than telling our stories authentically as we experienced them.
We want to welcome our new users, some of whom jumped right in to tell their stories about last week’s prompt, Weddings. Our generation broke new ground in crafting our own ceremonies—choosing the music, writing our vows—and yet the weddings we described proved a curious mixture of innovative and traditional, with a few nods to our parents’ expectations. Still, to paraphrase one writer, it’s not the wedding, it’s the marriage.
We wish you a happy and safe Independence Day that generates memorable stories to tell.