MormonTimes.com: Personal histories don't need to be dull, boring
PROVO Most people would agree that Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" is a page-turner of a book.
And the goal of anyone writing a personal history although not fiction should be to make it as interesting and riveting as possible, according to Dawn Parrett Thurston, an author, lecturer and life story writing teacher who was a presenter at the recent Campus Education Week at Brigham Young University.
"Have you ever read a personal history that's a page-turner?" she asked audience members, who laughed at the question.
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