This section contains three writing forms of the Lord-Pagés family: fiction writing, diaries, and letters.

Fiction and non-fiction: Everyone in the family wrote fictional short stories. Marilee was the most creative writer. Her stories ranged across different themes and cultures.

Diaries: Family members often kept diaries, perhaps because digital photography had not yet made it easy to record events through visual media. These diaries were often kept for specific events, like Montague Lord’s overseas trips and his year in Oxford and Pelayo Pagés Belleville’s year in Tampa, Florida, with Carmen and Mel and their children.

Correspondence: Letter writing was widespread among the Lord-Pagés family, first, because telephone calls were expensive and often not readily available, and, second, because the vast geographic separation between family members and friends made it the only reasonable way to keep up to date with one another. Those letters became memoirs for persons like Carmen Lord, the most prolific letter writer in the family.