
Learn how to collect memories, turn them into a life story, and write your biography or autobiography through modules with videos, writing challenges, and review sections.
Create a memory list to gather memories for your life story, interview yourself or your subject, then build an autobiographical timeline with prompts, dates, people, and themes.
Craft real life characters by revealing inner motives, backstories, and emotional landscapes that drive actions. Choose how to present them in your life story with a consistent writing style.
Plan your life story with a three-act structure, identifying the inciting incident from your autobiographical timeline, then map act one, act two, and act three for maximum impact.
Plan your life story's stage two, the act of mounting obstacles in autobiography or biography, using mind maps, subplots, chapters, and themes to sustain tension and reveal character growth.
Plan the ending of your life story in stage 3 planning by defining the main storyline's conclusion, emotional resolution, and a twist, using rising tension and a three-act structure.
Explore your narrative voice and point of view in life writing, testing first, second, third, and omniscient perspectives for biography or autobiography, and crafting realistic dialogue through practice.
Have you always wanted to tell your story, or that of someone special to you?
Maybe it’s your family history, or about a special time in your life?
We all live such amazing lives, yet rarely pass them on to our children and grandchildren – perhaps because we don’t think we could actually write a whole book or simply don’t know where to even start.
Well, here’s how…
This course will take you through writing a life story – whether it’s an autobiography or a biography – from the first idea through to the final draft, step by step.
I’m a writer across several genres, with best-sellers and award-winners amongst the 13 books I’ve written. I’m also a writing teacher and a ghost writer. Through this course, I can help you write YOUR story too.
How can this course help you?
Writing a life story is actually quite like writing a novel except you already know the facts; you don’t have to make them up – but that in itself can cause problems.
Where do you start?
How do you remember everything that’s important?
Where do you finish?
How much should you tell?
How do you tell it?
What writing style do you adopt?
How do you make real life as dramatic and intriguing as one of those bestsellers we read on holiday?
Well, this course answers all those questions and more, guiding you through the tips and techniques of writing, as well as remembering. Once you know the basics of how to write a book, you’ll find your life story will simply take off and almost write itself!
TESTIMONIALS...
I have been writing for several months and knew it wasn’t interesting but didn’t know how to change what I want to say but now it becomes much clearer to me, thanks to you. - Ruth M
Thank you for … the course - it was brilliant. - Joan K
Thank you so very much for the wonderful help you have given me. I appreciate the time you gave to this very much. - Jill M
What’s in this course
This course will take you through:
Creating a memory list.
Creating an autobiographical timeline.
How to start and end your story.
Organising the main content of your story to create pace and tension.
How to present the people in your story.
How to look for themes running through your story and use them to advantage.
How to edit your first draft.
Plus an overview of what you could do with your finished story.