Creating Your Autobiography

To write your autobiography, you have two options:

1. Write it as a letter to yourself in the future. Maybe to yourself, at age 80, reminding yourself of your youth, or a letter to yourself at 40 reminding yourself what was important to you when you were younger. Write it in letter format ("Dear Me..."), and be creative with that format. Your future self, of course, can't (yet) respond, but you can write.

2. Write it as the first chapter or two of a longer autobiography - one that's going to take years to complete, because you haven't lived it all yet. So you're providing the introduction that's leading up to the rest of your life. How do you think your life so far is preparing you for where you see your life going? Is there any foreshadowing you're going to incorporate, any hints for where future chapters might go?