Recounting your life history is a challenge – we are talking about opening the book on your or someone else’s life experiences, highs and lows, day to day events, special relationships and occasions. The very retelling of these things is usually quite emotive.

Some have said it is absolutely like reliving the moments, complete with emotions, and all the senses coming into play. Others have said it is cathartic, a huge relief, just to talk about it all and to be able to express these emotions. Everyone has said it was enjoyable, if not just a wonderful experience.

Writing your memoirs, or your autobiography, or writing a biography for someone else, you will experience all of these sensations in some measure.

Do you have a story to tell?

Perhaps you just want a small booklet about a specific event or series of events in a life. That is usually referred to as a memoir.

Do you want to create a biographical record of your life or the life of a loved one, a parent or grandparent, capturing whatever you can before perhaps a milestone birthday or other celebration?

Biographies and autobiographies

can be purely ghost-written,

which means that Mal’s name is not associated with the book and

you are the stated author.