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Writing your story

Most of us have very little experience in writing a biography, let alone attempting to getting down on paper our own life story. To help you with this, here are some prompts to guide you through the process.

They are sequence of simple memory joggers that will help you structure your story or, for that matter, a story for anybody who has a story to be told.

Not every prompt requires an answer and some may be irrelevant, but using a prompt system makes the task so much easier.

Click on the links below to access and download or print the prompts:

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

To use CHATGPT to help you write your story ...

Download the PROMPTS TABLE (see button to right -->)
Answer a number of questions
Drag mouse over questions and answers and COPY (CONTROL C)
Open CHATGPT
Enter "write prose in 1st person - [then paste info from PROMPTS TABLE (CONTROL V)]