One of the 10 auto/biographies I’d like to write is “an obituary for every year of my life, imagining I’d died in that year.” I first thought of the idea of writing my own obituary about five years ago, shortly after I discovered the Oxford Muse and started to think seriously about serial autobiography. [I've [...]
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There are various ways to escape the mundanity of a strictly chronological account of your life story. One way is to compose Autobiographical Memories, which are 100-word snapshots of a specific memory, focussing on vivid emotions and sense experience. Another compelling way of telling one’s life story is through what I call the filtered, or [...]
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