Is it a good idea to write your own biography? I wouldn't publish it until my parents have passed on, but should I start now while I remember everything?
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Isn't that what a diary is for?
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it would be a good idea to start a diary, and then when you retire with an autobiography.
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Sure why not, there may be things in about a year that you may have forgotten or cant remember it fully. Start it now roughly with little notes.
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Yeah sure!! That's a great idea because when you get older you can look backk on it and that would be amazing to read what you thought in the past.
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Yes, while you are living, it is called a journal. After you die it can be published as a biography. My favorite author, Isaac Asimov, kept a detailed account of his life, which he started publishing Autobiographical volumes while he was still alive. "In Memory Yet Green" (1979); "In Joy Still Felt" (1980), and after his death, in 1992 "I, Asimov, a Memoir"(1994) His wife, a writer in her own right, also wrote a biography 10 years after his death, called "It's been a good life" using some of the notes from his writings, and mostly her life with him.
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Any particular reason you think you *can* get it published at all?!
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Autobiography can be wonderful literature if you can write well about your own life experiences. Definitely toy with it if you are interested. The best Auto is going to be honest, so don't worry about what other people are going to think. Write it for you.
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How famous are you? Do I know or care about you?
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