How to Write Your Own Life Story: A Practical Guide
What I've learned from watching hundreds of people work through a life-story project. Five practical tips on how to write your own life story, from the founder of Biography Studio.
On Memory & Looking Back
How to Write About a Moment That Mattered
The biggest moments of your life are paradoxically the hardest to write about. A guide to bringing a turning point back so others feel its weight, without having to declare it.
How to Describe Places in a Way That Takes People There
Whether you are telling a story about a holiday, writing about a town in a novel, or describing the house you grew up in, you are trying to take someone into a place they have never been. A guide to describing places so others can stand inside them.
How to Bring a Person to Life Through Words
The instinct is to reach for words like kind, strict, funny. But those words could describe anyone. A guide to bringing someone you loved into a room where others did not know them.
How to Tell Stories So People Hang on Every Word
Most of us know someone who can tell a story. What looks like a gift turns out to be a set of habits, and they can be learned. A guide to the craft of telling stories well.
Everything You Need to Know About Biography Studio: Is It for Me?
The questions people most often ask before they start a Biography Studio project, answered in one place by the founder.
How Memory Works and How We Access It
Most of what you remember is not gone, it is unreached, and understanding how memory works changes what you can do about it.