Our Journal
Thoughts on life writing, current events, and featured stories.
7 Lessons from the Life of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” So, we who know a world before Old Social Media, let’s create a better future while we still have our freedom.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice for Good Voice Boxes
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.”
Not the Voice but the Ear Commands the Story: Italo Calvino on Voice and Audience
Italo Calvino’s writing is light and approachable. It’s also weird, exciting, and utterly original. The Biograph App helps you “find” and create your own original voice.
5 Ways to Write a Powerful Memoir
Memoirs are moving, powerful, and full of life. Our experts at Biograph have gathered five tips to help you write a powerful memoir. They’ll help you tap into the raw power of the genre.
6 Great Tips to Write a Bio that Truly Reflects You
Whether you’re networking or dating, you have to write a bio. It has to reflect your goals, your experience, your personality. Here are six tips we've learned.
5 Tips to Write a Powerful Biography
“Do not read the history,” advises Benjamin Disraeli, “read biographies, because biography is life without theory.” Learn how to write a powerful biography!
Preserving generational wealth through intergenerational storytelling
Just as financial accounting is necessary for growing your business, recounting your story is essential for re-inventing the family’s role within and beyond the business.
Write things worth reading, or do things worth writing
Not by chance or fate but by his own design, Ben Franklin’s name is everywhere. On schools, avenues, ships, towns, companies, hundred-dollar bills—you name it, there’s Ben’s name.
