![]() ![]() Find a great memoir or autobiography – one that recounts a personal history or a scandalous true story as scintillatingly as fiction. If you do think you want to write a book about your own story, we would offer the same advice for life writing as we do for budding novelists: learn by example! Take other people’s life writing or a nonfiction narrative that caught your eye. For example, should you be writing accurate dialogue, when what people actually say is often so prosaic? Then there are smaller questions about the writing process and techniques. That’s far too much material to just free write – right? So how much planning should you do before you start writing? And how can you give shape and meaning to the randomness of all that happens in a person’s life? First: how can you begin writing when you’re faced with your entire life story? It is, understandably, a daunting task. Of course, writing any true story – let alone a book about your life – brings some unique challenges. ![]() Do you look back on your own life and think it would make a great memoir? Have you had an amazing life story that seems to have a narrative arc already built in? Have you gone through an incredible personal story that you think should be committed to paper? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be contemplating how to write a book about your life. ![]()
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