Statistics show that greater than 80% of Americans have thought about or have the desires to write and publish a book of some sort. A great many of them want to write an autobiography or in other words their own story. An autobiography is the story of ones life wrapped up in one book, it often has the good, the bad, and the ugly all tied together in sequence. There are many reasons people want to write their own autobiography. One of the most popular has been to help others who are or may be in the same situation. By creating an autobiography, they can help their readers learn how to cope with various situations that may occur in ones life.
However, many people are not writers, they are not even sure where to begin, and this of course is where you come in. You can create an excellent business in helping people create the thought process and put their own autobiography onto paper. You can make a good deal of money collaborating with a person in efforts to help them create their autobiography or memoirs, and there are many various ways that you can offer your services. You could offer online classes that will allow you, and your students, to utilize the vast expanse of the Internet in learning how to write an autobiography and memoir. Allowing you to take advantage of the many resources and expand on your knowledge of writing, to better help your students.
You could also create an attractive website or newsletter that will allow you to better advertise who you are and what you do. By creating a website that is resourceful and attractive to your potential customers. Provide them with information on your services, as well as some resources for further investigating their desires to write a memoir or autobiography. You should outline good and bad reasons for writing an autobiography; this will help weed-out those who are writing the book for the wrong reasons. You should set these forth reasons why you will not help a person in learning to write their book. These reasons should include; the desire to make a great deal of money (Unless the person is someone extremely famous, there is not a good deal of money to be made by writing an autobiography), for revenge purposes, or to create a history that is false or untrue.
Good reasons for writing an autobiography could include; leaving a message for generations in the future, to create an account of your history and heritage, to gain closure to an event or period of their lives, to better understand experiences that have occurred within one's life, and to share with others who they are. Your goal will be to teach them the structure of a memoir or autobiography plus what to include within the book. Teaching others how to write their own autobiography can be an extremely lucrative money making business opportunity, if you put the right efforts into force.
Resources:
http://www.tcc.edu/
http://www.writequickly.com/author/menu.aspx
http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/
http://va.essorment.com
www.overstock.com
September 24, 2009
