Best celebrity autobiographies
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How to Write an Autobiography: A Beginner’s Guide
Why to Write an Autobiography
Everyone has a good story to share. An autobiography is an opportunity to tell a life story and shape how others remember us. It’s an entire lifetime of experiences and memories, and a unique path through life’s ups and downs that is worth recording. This blog post will provide guidance and tools on how to write an autobiography.
A Memoir is an Autobiography, but an Autobiography is Not a Memoir
The difference between a memoir vs. autobiographies is that a memoir is a subset of an autobiography. Both a memoir and an autobiography tell the tale of a life, but an autobiography captures the whole story while a memoir describes a mere chapter. An autobiography walks the reader through a chronology of life, while a memoir moves back and forth through time as needed to illustrate the point. While an autobiography truly is a life story, a memoir can focus on certain aspects or time periods to tell a specific story.
What’s Included in an Autobiography?
An autobiography should include at least the followi
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How to Write an Autobiography: The Secret Tips to Finally Get Started
Something unusual just might happen to you when you start working with your family’s photo collection:
You may suddenly get this urge to start writing about what’s happened to you in your life and why it meant so much to you.
And what’s even more surprising, you may also have an overwhelming desire to ask your loved ones to start writing the same about their lives!
Why Write Your Autobiography
As you organize and label your photos, especially older ones, what happens is you will start to put together pieces of the larger “story” of family members’ lives. Each of their lives becomes like one giant puzzle that you’re assembling back together.
At this point, I’ve found their “Life Stories” now either become more clear to you, or sometimes … much less. You may have thought you knew someone really well until you discover photos that show a whole other part of their life you never knew.
For example, I showed my Mom some photos that she hadnR
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How to Start an Autobiography – 4 Great Examples
How to start your autobiography can be a tricky issue.
Do you begin with your birth? With a description of your parents, or maybe even your grandparents?
How about beginning with the first notable thing you did? Or starting off with the biggest crisis point in your life, and then going back to the beginning?
There is no single “best” way to start an autobiography. But there are different approaches. The key is to find the one that works best for your story.
If you’d like to hire a ghostwriter to help you with your autobiography, contact Barry Fox & Nadine Taylor.
Four ways to start an autobiography
Here are excerpts showing four interesting ways that have been used to open an autobiography. One author uses his birth name to foreshadow the life that lies ahead; one paints a simple sketch of his parents; one talks about the beliefs that shaped him; and one reflects on the influence of chance.
Each opening is different, and each is just right for its subject. Perhaps one of these approaches wil
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