A simple step-by-step guide to writing your life story, one memory at a time: where to start, which questions to ask, how to organise chapters and how to help a parent write theirs.
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
The blank page is the whole problem Want to write your life story in 40 days? Most people who want to write their life story never actually start. It is not that they do not have a story, it is that forty, fifty, eighty years of memories and a blank page in front of you … Continue reading “40 Days, 40 Questions: Write Your Life Story Without the Blank Page”
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
Want to write your mother’s story, or your father’s? Most people who want to save a parent’s story never get past thinking about it. A formal interview feels stiff. A blank page titled “Mom’s Life Story” feels even worse. So we built Tale of Life’s question generator for exactly this job. It helps you write … Continue reading “Write Your Mother’s Story. Or Your Father’s. Or Your Uncle’s.”
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
Most people who start writing their life story never planned to be writers. They just wanted to save a memory before it faded. Over the last few weeks, Tale of Life has made that first step easier. Now there’s a second step too: you can listen to your life story, read back to you for … Continue reading “You Wrote It. Now You Can Hear It.”
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
Blank page? Start with one question. Most people who want to write their life story, or a parent’s, never get past the first sentence. They have plenty to say. However, “write your life story” is such a big, empty instruction that it is hard to know where to begin. That is exactly the problem our … Continue reading “Blank Page? Start With One Question.”
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
You’re writing about the summer your family drove to the coast every August. You remember the car, the radio and the smell of sunscreen. Still, there’s a gap only your mother can fill. This is where you invite parents to write with you. It is not a separate project, just one more voice in the … Continue reading “One Email Invites Your Parents to Write With You”
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
Not sure where to start writing your story? You are not alone. It is the biggest reason people put off writing at all. So we built My Story to answer exactly that question, and the page in front of you no longer has to stay blank. We hear the same thing from almost everyone who … Continue reading “Stuck on Where to Start? Let My Story Help You Find the Words”
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
Some of the best family stories aren’t shared stories yet, even though they don’t belong to just one person. The summer everyone remembers differently. The road trip where your brother swears it rained the whole time and your sister swears it didn’t. The story your mom tells one way. Your grandmother tells it completely differently. … Continue reading “Some Memories Aren’t Yours Alone to Write”
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
Some of the best stories we hear from Tale of Life members never actually get typed, because the person chose to speak instead of typing. A parent describes their own parents out loud, the way they’d tell it to a grandchild at the kitchen table. The words just appear on the page. That’s not a … Continue reading “Don’t Want to Type? Just Talk. Tale of Life Will Write It Down.”
Written by Tarmo Henri Tamm
If you’ve started your Tale of Life profile and then just… stopped, staring at an empty Achievements or Family section, you’re not alone, and it’s not because you don’t have anything to say. It’s because write your life story is a huge, vague instruction, and huge, vague instructions are hard to start. That’s exactly what … Continue reading “Free Download: 60 Questions to Help You Write Your Life Story”