Writing Prompt: Transforming Family Saga into Story

Here is one of my favorite writing prompts. I love it because it always generates great stories even from people who wouldn�t ordinarily put pen to paper, and because it messes with your mind, makes you ask, what�s fiction, what�s fact, what�s history, what�s story, what�s fiction, what�s fact. Maybe we should just call it faction. I�ve done this one many times in my writing workshops, with the young and the old and the very blocked. It�s tried and true.