Writing an Autobiography

Recently, my paternal grandpa died. He was a great man with a great many stories to tell. Turns out the people around him had a great many stories to tell about him as well.

What might have been a sad occasion, actually turned about to be a celebration of his life, family relationships, friendship and duty.

Luckily, my grandfather was a meticulous journal keeper. He literally had a hundred plus volumes he recorded about his life. So his stories and memories are immortalized in these books.

I’m also lucky enough to have a rudimentary autobiography he completed some 20 years ago. To me, his life story, as told by him, is priceless. But his autobiography (or rather his thoughts about his life) are 20 years incomplete.

I’m still relatively young. However, in the last couple of years I have felt an increasing desire to get more story down for my family. (I, honestly, hope my autobiographical feelings are not some ominous premonition of my impending death.)

The purpose of the Autobiography Workshop is to take you (and me) through helpful steps to writing our life stories. It’s a workshop in two senses: 1 – I’ll be constantly working on the blog itself to give you the best information and 2 – This is where I hope to work on my autobiography. (I hope you’ll find this a useful workshop as well.)

While I hope that you will find most of the posts helpful, the following posts have been the most popular to this point (I will update this page as the popularity of different posts increase or decrease):