How can you convert your autobiography into a novel?

Your life story could make a best-selling novel, if you follow these steps

Here are 5 great reasons you can write your personal story as a novel:

1. You can write about scenes and events you didn’t actually witness.

2. You can make up new dialogue.

3. Events can be rearranged to create a new compelling story.

4. You can add or delete people or events according to a more dramatic, creative storyline.

5. Writing about what happened and your feelings about it could be easier for you emotionally.

Your personal story already contains many of the same elements you would use to write a novel.

There will be interesting characters, snappy dialogue, breathtaking scenes, emotional shares — as well as a beginning, middle, and end.

So how do you turn your autobiography into a story arc for a novel?

It’s important to understand the structure of a story so that you can be sure your reader will remain engaged, all the way through to the end.

Just to be clear, some other names for a story arc are narrative arc, 3 act outline…