How Write Book About My life

AlexisReed · Post by **AlexisReed** » 10 Oct 2013, 03:15

Im only 23 but been through alot growing up and feel my life story is worth creating it so twisted and complex filled eith surprises,and extream lesson that most people my age have yet experince. how can start cause i don't know how to appoarch this.

jsinard42 · Post by **jsinard42** » 10 Oct 2013, 17:16

I would recommend you look up some online articles about writing memoirs.

AlexisReed · Post by **AlexisReed** » 11 Oct 2013, 00:13

I look up articals but i can't quiet grio the understanding on where i ahould strat since there are many ways to write a nemoir such as in diary style for example..

Like where exactly should start my life story for example from birth. til now or mid age cause it ton of detail.

Indydreamer · Post by **Indydreamer** » 23 Oct 2013, 18:06

Hi, I just joined the forum. I would suggest that you think about the reason or purpose that you want to write your memoir. For example, you say that you have had a lot of twists, and surprises, and have had lessons that many people your age have not had to learn. It sounds as if you are not interested in writing a blow-by-blow timeline of your entire life. If I read you right, you are more interested in focusing on only those events you described in your first post and the effect they have had on your life and the lessons you have learned from them. For most people, the reason they write a timeline, diary-type memoir is to preserve the story of their life for their children and grandchildren. For example, normally one's parents and grandparents have led very different lifestyles, and future generations are usually very interested in reading about their predecessor's lives. Your memoir, however, would focus more on just these particular life-changing events and how they affected you and perhaps others in your life. Also, most people who offer up a diary-form of memoir does so because they have kept a diary or journal. This follows the style and format of many contemporary memoirs, which are not meant to recreate the entire autobiography of the writer. When a writer reprints the pages from a journal or diary, she perhaps adds comment or additional facts to the journal entries. Unless you have journal entries, I wouldn't worry about it. In fact, today's memoirists enjoy the freedom of writing their life stories in many different forms. Some write in short narrative, chapter forms such as essays. Others intersperse poems and narrative, along with dialogue and events written in story form. I would say that the best thing to do is write it in the manner that feels natural, as if you are telling the story to someone else. In fact, you could even tape record it, and have someone transcribe it for you if it would make it easier to get the first draft written. Before you begin, you may be able to make a rough outline based on certain major events or turning points. You can edit it and refine it after you have the rough draft written. You needn't worry about making the first draft perfect. The rough draft is meant to be messy. But it will give you a starting point. Does that help?