How Do I Write My Memoirs?

Are you stuck trying to write your life story?

By the time we become seniors, most of us have come to the realization that we’ve left it too late. We think we’d like to write our memoirs, but we never got around to asking our parents the important questions: How did they meet? Who was their first love? How did they become the people they ended up being?

How Did I Get Here?

Then there are the questions about our own history: What was I like as a toddler? Who was my best friend in kindergarten? Where did my first pet come from? What was my first word, my biggest fear, or a myriad of other events that I can no longer recall?

What about the skeletons in the closet that our lost family members never talked about, or the treasure trove of heartwarming stories that have died with them? How do we handle friends or relatives who may not want some of these stories and secrets revealed?

Leaving a Legacy

These unanswered questions often result in a desire to leave our own written legacy for our children and grandchildren, in as much detail as we can. The problem is, most of us don’t know how or where to start, what to keep and what to leave out. Writing a biography or autobiography can be an overwhelming task for someone who is just starting out and even for those who have experience writing fiction or how-to books, it can be daunting.

If you aren’t sure how to organize your information or even how to find it…if you don’t know how to do research, write compelling copy or dialogue, how to keep your reader interested…in short, how to write a memoir, this is the place to start.

Planning, organizing and writing – particularly writing in a way that engages people and makes them want to read what you have to say – all these things are important, but most important of all is to have fun while you’re writing your life story.  Enjoy the process. It will show up in your final product.

Writing Is the Easy Part.
It’s Getting Started that’s Hard.

One of the most difficult problems for writers is Writer’s Block, otherwise known as Procrastination. But what most don’t know is that there are preliminary steps which trigger your procrastination habit.

I’ve created a PDF that can get you started on the journey towards completing your memoir or autobiography.  This little mini-course outlines four types of procrastination triggers and how they work to stop you from writing, as well as the steps to take to overcome the procrastination habit.  It’s chock-full of useful, actionable information that will get you past writer’s block and get you started on your project. Entitled “Four Procrastination Triggers and How to Spot Them” it contains a breakdown of the ways you can identify how you so often sabotage yourself as well as how to overcome this insidious habit. It’s specifically designed to help you get past your “stuckness”. Yeah, I know…not a real word, but descriptive, nonetheless.

If you’d like your own copy of this valuable training, all you have to do is fill in your information and click on the button in the “Are You A Procrastinator?” subscription form on the top right of this page.