how to start writing a book about your life?

Memoir writing is often considered as a writer’s dream. They usually want to let people know what journey they’ve been to, and how life has turned out be for them. The memoir writing has been existed as writing sub genre/genre since the ancient times, when Gaius Julius Caesar, a Roman statesman and general wrote about his life in the Commentarii de Bello Gallico, where he described about what had went through his life in the early days, upand later.  He also wrote a memoir later in his life, named Commantaries of The War,  which was later translated into english. The history of memoirs tells us that we’ve a fascination of letting people know what’s going through with us in our life. In the blog we’ll try and look to explore how to begin writing a book about your life.

Why Write About Your Life?

When people have experiences, events or things that happened similar or unique to someone, they always tend to write memoirs, or autobiographies, that’ll tell the people about their life. You won't have a person writing about their life when his life is just an ordinary  9-5 routine and nothing much special. The person who wills to write about his life is someone who wants to share a story that has something unique to tell the people and a destiny that has elements people can take inspiration from. Here’s our guide to write a book on yourself, and how you can write it’s beginning. But, before that, we’ll look at the main differences between the three entities that sound, and look similar, but are miles apart from each other. Autobiography, Biography, and Memoirs. Here's a brief introduction of these.

Autobiography.

An Autobiography is written to describe your gradual introduction, and changes that took place within your life. The whole purpose of writing these stories is to tell people how different stages of your life set the platform for you to become what you are today. They're usually written by the person themselves, or they're co-written by the help of another writer.

Biography.

Biographies and Autobiographies usually are the same, except the fact that biographies are written by another person who was in different ways inspired by one’s life. These stories are written and published by others.

Memoirs. 

Memoirs usually focus on a certain part of your life, an example for it can be how your life changed post-college, and how things shaped up to make you the big thing you are today, or maybe how escaped the certain fears that led to living a better life. 

Now we know what these three genres, or subgenres are. Let's now look onto the thing of how you should start writing a book about your life, that meets any of these three genres and finds success.

Start Writing About Anything Freely

You need to take the first step by starting to write without any pattern. The purpose here is not to complete the book at first, it's just to collect the right sort of stories and information that you might want to add in the book. Start writing, just from scratch and write till you have enough life-stories, that you will think will shape up in your story perfectly.

Organize Your Theme

Once there's a set of stories in your bag, you now need to make sure that you're arranging them in a fashion that is suitable for you in many ways. You may want to shape your story from past to present or vice versa. You’ll organize the content according to your theme and mind frame that'll be best fit for you.

Choose The Right Genre

You know what genre you're going to pick once you are writing a book about your life. Although, there will be moments and places in the story that will shift away a bit, but the general theme would remain the same throughout according to your story. The genre of your story will determine the readers it will attract, and the spicier your life is, the more chances of the book to shine bright in the market.

Connect with People About Your Life

The idea may seem to a bit absurd for you to connect with other people regarding your life, but the people around you may know how your life has shaped, they may tell you the events and things that you're missing out on, and they may give a third person’s opinion to you about how your life seemed to be for people around you. This way, you can not only add a few missing stories in your book, but you can also look to present the views people had for you. 

Keep in Check Of The Values, And Beliefs.

Your values and beliefs will make up for the readers of your life’s book. When you look to write a book about yourself, you must keep your values and belief system intact with the narrative you're trying to build. You stick to your ideas of life, how things around you have changed and how people are listening to your story. You should always be a promoter of  how the life you're living is shaped due to the beliefs you had. And it should also sit in good with the readers. So, in short, you have to be dual-sighted to make sure both the things remain intact.

Impact People Had On You

Always keep the names of the people you’ve got an inspiration from in your mind once you're writing a book about your life. The main reason for this is, the people around you may have helped you in some ways, some of them would’ve helped you in guiding you about the career you're working with right now, some of them may have been a strong pillar in your life when you were down and out, etc. This will be a good way to not only credit, but also honor, and thank the people who’ve been helping you throughout your journey.

Challenges and Your Eventual Success

Once you’ve thanked the people who were a building stone in your life, you must highlight the points where you had your most difficult time. Because you not only want to tell a story that brags about your success, but also highlights the places where you have been struggling. The main reason to highlight anything like that is to tell the people around that not everything is not like an easy walk in the park, you telling people about how's the difficulty been in your life, you should also notify them that how you broke away from these, and made you what you are. Your success is not the main point where the story circulates, but your journey all through the way, your struggles and how you managed and succeeded with it is the point you’d want your story to circulate around.

To Conclude

The blog went through a lot of different things about how to begin a book about your life. The main differences between Biography, Autobiography and Memoir. We also went through the ways and means in which you can perfectly execute the beginning of your book about your life, it's add ons and other things that'll highly appreciate the value of your written text. The blog was a work of research based content that was done solely by the writer. Anything that is found to be incorrect, is a human error. The main focus of the blog was to educate, and inform the readers, and any conflicts or difference is a personal opinion, that should be accepted and appreciated. Follow our platform BWO on Facebook, and Instagram for more blogs, and services.