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Book the story of my life5/19/2023 For example, in one fragment titled ‘Arrogance’ he writes: It must all be considered as if spoken by a character in a novel.īarthes proceeds to give the reader fragments written in the third person, alternating with captioned photographs from his youth. The French theorist Roland Barthes begins his memoirs with a preface that reads: Experiment with elements of fiction and a playful approachĮxample of experimental life writing: Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes.Protect your identity or those of others while writing about trauma or difficult subject matter.This approach to life writing may be useful if you want to: You could follow a non-fiction approach and set down dates, facts and memories as close to events as they occurred as possible.Īnother option is to fictionalize and blur the line between fact and fiction. There are many ways to approach life writing. Decide whether you’ll write non-fiction or fictionalize Aspiring autobiographers often mail us asking, ‘how can I write my own story?’ Try these 7 life writing tips to start: 1.
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