This book gives a step-by-step guide to writing your memoir, including different styles of writing and organizing your memories. You could write a journal style, epistolary, narrative, or even a scrapbook. There is a whole section dedicated to just researching and remembering your past. There are different things you can do to jog your memory and bring the details into your memoir.

I found the section on writing expressively to be especially helpful. This book analyzes how to write yourself as a character in your own story, and how to direct a plot and develop a theme. There are sections about writing descriptions and dialogue. There is even an entire section just about food and the importance of food in your memories.

The sections about getting published and digitizing your work are outdated since this book was published in 2006, but everything else is really useful.