Sunday, January 5, 2025

Autobiographical Writing Insight


This defines the project better than anything I have ever read on the topic.

As [Twain] put it in June 1906, he had finally seen that the "right way to do an Autobiography" was to "start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale, and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing that has intruded itself into your mind meantime."

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