Telling your own story

You need help from your past and present selves

In memoir and first-person essay work, there are two voices telling the story: the person who you were then and the wiser present-day you who knows how it turned out.

Simple in theory, but harder in practice. So, to help yourself, try this exercise as a freewrite or journaling or mind-mapping exercise: ask yourself: what was I thinking and who was I th…