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Not sure where to start writing your story? You are not alone โ it is the single biggest reason people put off writing altogether. My Story is the feature we built to answer exactly that question, so the page in front of you does not have to stay blank.
We hear the same thing from almost everyone who signs up for Tale of Life: “I know what I want to say. I just don’t know how to start saying it.”
You sit down to write about your first job, or the year everything changed, or the person who taught you the most. The page just sits there, blank. Not because you don’t remember. Turning a memory into sentences is a different skill than living it, and most of us never learned how.
That’s the problem we built My Story to solve.
Where to start writing your story
If you have been staring at a blank field wondering where to start writing your story, My Story gives you a running start instead of an empty box. For more general tips, see our guide on how to start writing your life story.
One section, a little different from the rest
Every other part of your Tale of Life profile, Achievements, Family, Work Life, Early Age, all of it, is exactly what it’s always been. It holds your own words, in your own voice, at your own pace. That’s not changing, and it’s not going anywhere.
My Story is the one section that gives you a running start. Instead of staring at an empty box, you can click “Open ChatGPT to help write this.” It opens a new tab and hands ChatGPT a ready-made prompt from your notes. It also asks a set of gentle, specific questions โ the kind a good interviewer would ask a friend. From there, it drafts a rough first version for you.
When you’re happy with it, it’s yours. Read it over, change anything that doesn’t sound like you, rewrite whole paragraphs, or start again completely. Nothing goes into your profile unless you copy it in yourself and click Save.
Why keep everything else handwritten?
Because the whole point of Tale of Life is that you are writing your own words for the people who’ll want to read them someday. We didn’t want to build a tool that writes your life for you. We wanted to help with the one moment that stops most people before they’ve written a single sentence: not knowing where to begin.
My Story is that starting point. Once you’ve found your footing there, the rest of your profile, your achievements, your family, your greatest lessons, is still entirely, unmistakably yours to write.
Try it for free
My Story is free to use, like the rest of Tale of Life. If you’ve been putting off filling in your profile because you didn’t know where to start writing your story, that’s exactly who My Story is for. It’s a similar idea to the interview-based approach StoryCorps has used for two decades to help people capture their lives in their own words. Head to your profile, open My Story, and get your first set of questions.
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