Turn Your Family Archive into 

Stories that Captivate

For family-history writers who are ready 

to craft scenes, not just facts.

If you’re overwhelmed by research notes, photographs, and names—but still uncertain how to shape them into a story your family will read—then you’re in the right place. In Story Foundations, you’ll learn the craft of scene writing, give your ancestors life on the page, and build a narrative that honors their legacy.

What You'll Learn Inside Story Foundations

You already have the research — now it’s time to bring it to life.
Story Foundations gives you the tools, structure, and confidence to turn your facts into compelling narrative scenes your family will actually want to read.

By the end of the program, you’ll know how to:

  • Find your story’s focus — identify the emotional core that gives your writing meaning.

  • Build a scene-based structure that keeps readers engaged from start to finish.

  • Write with clarity and confidence, using sensory detail, dialogue, and momentum.

  • Balance truth and storytelling — staying factual while writing with heart.

  • Develop a sustainable writing practice that helps you finish your stories, not just start them.

You don’t need to be a novelist — you just need a story worth telling and the guidance to tell it well.

Who Story Foundations Is For

 

This course is designed for family history writers who are ready to move beyond collecting facts — and start crafting stories that connect, engage, and endure.

Story Foundations is for you if:

  • You’ve gathered years of family research, but struggle to turn it into narrative.

  • You want to learn how to write scenes, not summaries.

  • You crave a clear process and structure to guide your writing.

  • You’re eager to write with more emotion, description, and flow.

  • You’re ready to make consistent progress instead of waiting for “someday.”

You don’t need to be an experienced writer — just someone with a story to tell and the commitment to bring it to life.

If you’ve ever thought, “I just don’t know where to start,” this is where your story begins.

What's Included in 

The Story Foundations Learning Center?

  • Storytelling Modules

    Nine self-paced modules that take you from blank page to first draft. Each lesson includes practical examples and exercises tailored to family history writing.

  • On-Demand Video Hub

    16 skill categories, each packed with bite-size on-demand videos on essential writing topics. 

    Perfect for those who have already completed the storytelling modules or want to revisit a specific skill or embrace it more fully as their writing evolves. 

  • Worksheets and Templates

    Downloadable guides to help you organize your scenes, outline emotional arcs, and structure your story — tools you can use again and again.

  • Monthly Office Hours

    Join live Q&A sessions to ask questions, get feedback, and stay accountable. You’ll never feel stuck or alone in your process.

  • Bonus Resources

    Exclusive handouts and examples from Lynn’s own writing projects, showing how real family stories move from research to narrative.

 

Everything in Story Foundations is designed to help you move from knowledge to action — so your family story doesn’t stay in your head or your files, but finally lives on the page.

Inside Story Foundations

 

Story Foundations is built around a step-by-step process that walks you from uncertainty to clarity — helping you turn your research into engaging, scene-driven stories.


Each module builds on the last, guiding you through the same structure professional writers use to shape powerful narratives.

Module 1: Finding Your Story's Focus

 

Module 2: The Framework of the Story

 

Module 3: Building Scenes that Engage

 

Module 4: The Framework of the Story

 

Module 5: Organizing Your Story for Flow

 

Module 6:  Writing with Heart and Honesty

Discover the emotional core of your ancestor’s journey — the question, theme, or tension that gives your story purpose and direction.

Learn the basic structure that turns events into narrative movement — and keeps your readers turning pages.

Understand what makes a scene work: action, emotion, and sensory detail. You’ll write short, vivid moments that bring your family’s past to life.

Practice transforming factual material into immersive description and natural dialogue — while staying true to the historical record.

Bring structure to your chapters, timelines, and transitions so your reader always knows where they are in time — and why it matters.

Balance accuracy with empathy. Learn how to write about sensitive subjects with grace, respect, and emotional depth.

By the end of Story Foundations, you’ll have the tools, templates, and confidence to begin writing your first full scene — and a clear plan to keep going.

Join Story Foundations

If you’ve been collecting research for years but still wonder how to begin the story itself, Story Foundations will give you the structure, tools, and encouragement to finally do it.

You’ll finish with a stronger understanding of story craft, a collection of written scenes, and the confidence to continue shaping your family’s narrative — one page at a time.

Choose your next chapter and start writing your family stories today.

Lifetime access — now just $347 

Your Stories Deserve to Be Told 

You’ve done the research. 

You’ve honored the details.
Now it’s time to give your ancestors a voice

 — and yourself the joy of writing their story.

No matter where you’re starting from, you’ll find step-by-step guidance, practical tools, and a welcoming community ready to help you write with purpose.

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