Tales to tell

Oral History-Tales to Tell --Razi
This article is exactly about what the title is, people who are trying to tell stories or real experiences from their life or others. I find it very interesting that writers have established another method of being a writer with a little bit different title instead of a journalist or a novelist or a fictional author. It wasn’t that recent when the title historian was used so commonly, even about three or four years ago as I recall historians were usually hired or positioned to record the present information and maintain or update the previous records and many of these titles were given due to the mass usage of media files and someone was needed to sort and store these files; and also for professionals who were in the museum or artifacts business. But I think this is a very creative way of motivating self and others to document our own history and experiences or stories that we might have heard from others. Writing a book or an article after getting an oral history from a person seems easy but it is not. It requires a lot of information gathering to turn some one’s experience or life stories into a book. It has to be true and make sense. This is a great way for a normal person who might not be a writer to begin small writing projects and progress into the field of writing. As we know Studs Terkel’s approach to documenting history is the same. Collecting many experiences it eventually became a book. I think it’s a good way to start writing and address some kind of fact-full information.