Your life story is as unique as your fingerprints. Write about your experiences, your adversities, and what you learned from them. Write for yourself, for your descendants, or for the world.

 Alex Haley,  the author of Roots, once said, “When a person dies, a small library burns.”

So true, yet I never gave this serious thought until my favorite grandmother died. Then I realized that her story had passed with her. I could no longer ask her questions about her life.

Writing a memoir, life story, or autobiography might seem like a daunting task. But if you take it one step at a time, one story at a time, you’ll get there. You are not a blank slate. Take a few minutes today to write just one story about your life.

If you need help as you begin to write or in pulling it all together, check out my how-to book, Write Your Memoir, One Story at a Time and sign up for my course offered through Santa Fe College.

See other pages of my website for hints and recommended books on writing memoir, and watch some Youtube videos. There’s lots of writing-memoir help out there.