[header] How to write about your own life [title] Understand the memoir genre. [step] In a memoir, you are the main character of your own life story. Many memoirists use the facts of their life story to create an engaging tale for the reader.
Because you are relying on your own memories as source material for the story, you may end up describing things differently than others might remember it. The key is to write down things as you remember it, in the most honest way possible.