"When writing your life story you need to be candid, authentic and artful - but don't forget the jokes"
Blake Morrison
1. Grab the reader’s attention from the off
2. Put us there
3. Dramatize yourself as the narrator
4. Be strict about point of view
5. Choose your tense carefully
6. Remember God is in the detail
7. Use the same storytelling devices that novelists use – plot, character, voice, motif and structure
8. Give signposts
9. Be surprising
10. Pace the story [ Full Article here ]
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