Interview yourself for your autobiography. A useful resource for autobiography writers.
Category Archives: memoir
The Primal Act of Writing Longhand
Writing truthfully is an act of rebellion. Writing longhand is revelling in the experience. In the absence of cave walls on which to tell our stories, it is the rawest way to express the written word.
What’s the Difference Between an Autobiography and a Memoir?
Good question …
Nervous First Interview with the Subject of My New Ghostwriting Project: LGBT She-Ra!
I contacted ‘LGBT She-Ra’ a few weeks back to see if she would do me the honour of sharing her life story, to potentially create a memoir together. I should add at this stage that ‘She-Ra’ is not her real name. It does, however, reflect what an absolute warrior she is – a warrior of the heart.
Two Walnut Whips in the Library: An Unexpected Encounter Among the Bookshelves
I recently watched a man drink a whole bottle of salad crème in the library, and there wasn’t a salad leaf in sight. Straight from the bottle. Glug, glug, glug. To me, this epitomises libraries in the twenty-first century: a catch-all for those in freefall from the community services and projects that have been cut by the government, looking for a place to belong or snooze or drink condiments. As a writer, obsessed with people-watching, I love it.