About the making of the Photo Scribe: A Writing Guide / How to Write Stories into Photo Albums

One day in 1996, I read an article in a local newspaper about a scrapbook workshop called Creative Memories that was about to be presented. The article mentioned both designing photo albums and writing stories for photos—actually the article said “photo captions” but I immediately thought of stories.

There was something about the tone of the article that led me to believe the woman offering the program and Creative Memories, once the largest company focused on enhancing photo albums, were ...