Writing Your Life Story
Why write your Life Story?
You may want to
- create an account of your life for family and friends
- write about some of your most interesting experiences
- review your life to date by setting it down
- create a memoir which complements your work or reputation
- just enjoy exploring your memories
Any of these reasons, and more, is valid.
Write 4 Life acknowledges that every Life Story is individual, and can be set down in different ways. The aim of our tuition is to show you the choice of approaches, and to give you the tools to fulfil your task. It is also designed to allow you reflection and exploration of your life experiences along the way.
Cherry Gilchrist is the author of ‘Your Life, Your Story: Writing Your Life Story for Family and Friends’, which will be published by Piatkus in February 2010. She has devised this approach through teaching Life Story classes, and helping hospice patients to write their stories. She is a skilled and experienced author who has written many other books for adults and children.
For full details of her work, see the ‘About Cherry’ page.
