What are the steps to writing an autobiography?

Planning Your Essay

1. Choose a story that you really want to tell or that you just want to get out of your system.

2. Define your purpose for writing

3. Consider your audience.

4. Generate ideas for your autobiography.

5. Make an outline.

Drafting Your essay

6. Write in the first person.

7. Begin with an engaging sentence that gets right into your story.

8. Describe the setting.

9. Transition from the introduction into your story.

10. Tell your story.

11. Conclude your story.

Enhancing your essay

1. I nclude lots of vivid details and dialogue where appropriate.

13. Consider organizing your story in a non-chronological manner.

14. Be yourself.