Many of us have at some stage of our lives thought about writing down our life experiences. But the idea often passes as quickly as it arrives. Most of us plainly don’t know the basis principles of how to write memoirs.
Very often people would feel that their lives have simply not been interesting enough. They were born. They went to school. They went to university. Then they found work, met someone, got married and had kids. And suddenly one day retirement was there. And a little later their life partner died. Looking back everything seems so terribly bland. The same story as that of billions of other people..
But that’s where you are wrong. It’s exactly the fact that millions of other people went through similar (but not the same!) experiences as you that will make yours interesting to them. Think about this: there is only one person in the world who had exactly the experiences you had. There are billions of other people who went to university. And there are millions who had to deal with cancer. But how many are there who had to deal with cancer while at university, like you did?
With the advent of the Internet it has all become so terribly easy. No longer do you have to run around begging someone to publish the memoirs that you spent five years writing. You can now publish it yourself on numerous Internet websites.
If you don’t do it for someone else, do it or yourself. Describing the road you walked to get where you are today could give you unexpected clarity on the road you should be walking from here. Seeing your own successes and mistakes unfold over the course of a few pages will help you to see it all with a perspective that little else could have given you.
Do a web search on how to write memoirs. You will get a lot of valuable tips that will help you to get started very quickly. Then simply be honest with yourself. Write about things as they really happened… Not the way you perhaps always told yourself and others they did.