Autobiographical writing books

Deciding what period and events you’ll cover in your life story is a helpful first step in choosing how to write an autobiography

Squishing the intrigues, heartbreaks, surprises and secrets of your life into narrative form may seem an impossible task

Life of course does not unfold in neat paragraphs, scenes and chapters

The ABF genre is just as much of a literary technique as it is an opportunity to enjoy the fiction writing process, your way

Autobiographical fiction is an opportunity to enjoy the fiction writing process, your way

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Some Starting Places

The autobiographical novel helps us explore the incompleteness of our own memories

To remember is to distort, and many of us have personal histories that are hard to disentangle, dissect, and distinguish

ABF allows us to explore what we don’t understand from our memories and create a story that makes sense