How to Begin Writing Your Own Biography

The easiest way to begin is to “just start writing”.  Jot down the absolute first things you remember.

Then begin a year by year outline  using one sheet of paper per year.Add  things as they come to your mind in the appropriate year. Describe your situation, home life, parents and grandparents. Insert all the funny little stories and happenings.

Then start with your grade school years, explain anything that occurred, your favorite teachers, etc. Describe them year by year, noting friends, and things you enjoyed and excelled in.

Then move on to high school. Outline your dating , growing up ,and teen years. Add notes, trials, problems you faced, friends, dates, and accomplishments.

Explain your graduation year,goals, your college years. Add as many details as you can remember.

Then begin with your marriage/marriages and home life, children ,careers, jobs, etc.

A good thing to use to help jog your memory is your yearly social security statement. In the United States, it gives a complete outline of your working years. Each year or job will bring up lots of memories. And you will be able to determine any gaps that have to be filled in. If you don’t have a yearly statement, you should be able to use a family members statement as a guideline. It will at least jog your memory a little, as you may be able to recall what you were doing when so and so worked at such and such a place.

Be very careful of writing anything defamatory about anyone , or anything that could have a negative effect on your published work.

Continue to write every day and add things as they are recalled. Turn it into a daily journal.

If writing presents a problem for you, use a tape recorder and hire someone to type it all up for you.

There are also  computer speech programs that will type  out what you say and all you have to do is go back and make all the corrections and organize your work.

You will know when the time is right to publish it. There are several sources on the internet  that offer”publish on demand”, at no charge. You simply have to purchase your own copies at very nominal prices. Create the book, order a copy and  edit extensively before adding an ISBN number and making it available to the public.