Autobiography Workshop

I just finished a university-level Autobiography Writing course. Tough stuff. At the end of the course, I ended up with 70 pages of recorded personal history. But every single one of those pages was a struggle. And I couldn’t have done it with out...

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,...

I thought that a good list to start with would be a list of all of the lists I want to make. Brilliant, I know. I brainstormed the following list: Major events Life changing events Perspective changing events Places...

About a year ago, I visited a site (the name escapes me now) that said a good way to start my story was through memory lists. Memory lists? Memory lists. Basically, you think of a category of something that happened in your life: events, high...