These links are provided by Amy Oaks Long, co author of Lorin Farr Mormon Statesman.
These sites might help you in writing your own family history stories.
She has also created a class you can take on line thru BYU starting in September 2011 that will systematically teach you how to write your own family histories

http://www.byub.org/ancestors/records/familyhistory/intro2.html

www.personalhistorians.org

Amy Long, Professor of Family History will be teaching the Rel C261 class. She is the co-author of our Lorin Farr Mormon Statesman book
The new BYU independent course for Rel C 261: Family History - available after September 1