How to Write a Life Journal

Write a life journal so that you can gain temporary fame--and make money. Make your journal interesting reading and more people will want to read your journal. Get enough people interested in reading your life journal and you might end up with a movie based on your life.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

1. Go to a bookstore or library and head to the writer section. Find books talking about getting published, specifically books teaching you how to write a book. Purchase or barrow this book, depending where you're getting these books, and read them cover to cover. The book, "The Story of a Lifetime: A keepsake of Personal Memoirs," by Stephen and Pamela Pavuk is a good starting point.
2. Gather all that you've written about your life, every journal and every note. Put them in chronological order. Talk to your parents and older siblings so that you can fill in details about your life that you were to young to remember. Also get events that proceeded the time you started your first journal.
3. Sit back and go back through your whole life. Find key events, then divide these key events into sub events. Don't just sit down and start writing your life journal. Come up with a structure that you're life journal will follow before you write the first word.
4. Write as soon as you're ready to write your life journal. Look at your notes and start as early as you want. Right after you write your life journal, put it away and let it "bake" for a few days. Go back to your life journal and read it laud. Go back and write over what doesn't make sense with words and sentences that do make sense.
5. Continue reading your life journal draft laud until you get to the end. You want to smooth this out for easy reading. After you write your revisions, get with a couple of your friends and family. Have them go through your life journal. Ask for their comments on interest and readability.
6. Write their suggestions in if they share a common trend. After you write these changes in, seek more friends and family. Ask them to go through your life journal draft. This time, have them rate every paragraph that you wrote. Have them mark "B" for "boring," a "+" for interesting.
7. Look for common trends. Keep an eye out for parts in your manuscript most people marked "B." Understand if that multiple people found the same area confusing or boring, you might have to write something better and more engaging for that section. Do the final draft and seek a publisher.