Autobiography Workshop

I see writing my autobiography (or you writing yours) as a chance to reflect on my life AND to see where I’m headed. It may seem weird, but I write this to hopefully motivate others to write/record their stories and to encourage them to live their...

Write For Heaven's Sake! I have just finished writing three articles on helps for writing an autobiography: Getting Started, Autobiography Characteristics, and the importance of writing your autobiography. I failed to mention the most important...

All right. So, it looks like you’re serious about how to make an autobiography. Fantastic. The truth is that there are a lot of websites on how to start an autobiography. Many of them are great. Some are not so great. One really cool thing about...

Autobiography Characteristics can be a little difficult to nail down. The best way to think about autobiography characteristics is to figure out what gives your story character. The number of ways of constructing an autobiography are about as diverse...

Earlier this year, my family and I traveled Philadelphia to visit the birthplace of the Constitution. Naturally, the visit inspired us. We witnessed the long conveyor belts of newly minted coins at the U.S. Mint; we saw the Liberty Bell's crack (which,...

OK. So it's weird but almost as soon as I finished the last post I knew that it was wrong. By wrong I mean that it felt a little forced. It felt forced for a couple of reasons: I don't actually think that the high school play Bye Bye Birdie was a...

I started high school at 13. Not because I'm any smarter than anyone else, but because in California the birthday cut off is December 31st instead of August like many states. My birthday is in October. My dad has a always been a give-me-the-spotlight...

I know I said I was creating a people list, but I think that a Turning Points List will be more appropriate. You never know if you'll have a chance to create everything you want to create. Best to start with the most important things. My Turning...

I have wondered about the shape my autobiography should take. Should I lay out the stories and let people decide? Should I lead the reader to certain conclusions? Actually, I plan on doing both. By laying out my stories here, I am giving the reader...

I've started a list of people in my life. I'm surprised at how long the list is. Not everyone plays a significant role but it's interesting just how many people I remember. With my off-line list, I track first and last names. At first, I thought...