Life Story Writing

"To write memoir is to understand and make sense of experience, to give a life an organization, to discover the metaphors of one’s narrative. It’s not simply to say, 'this happened to me, then this happened to me, then this next thing happened to me.' " ~ Sue William Silverman

Begin your life story with an intense experience, a unifying metaphor, and sounds from nature. Write from your sense of the situation, beyond the chronological order.