22+ ‘Autobiography’ Writing Prompts
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Dreamland Autobiography
Write an autobiography detailing the dream you remember best, and delve into the emotions it stirred.
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Animal Autobiography
Choose your favorite wild animal and write an autobiography from its perspective.
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Fictional Autobiography
If you were a character from a book or movie, who would you be and why? Write an autobiography as if you were that character.
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Authentic Autobiography
Write a short autobiographical account of a significant moment in your life, using correct verb tenses consistently.
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Altitude Attitude
Narrate an instance where you faced your fears, literal or metaphorical, effectively.
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Alien Autobiography
Write a first-person account of a cantina creature’s life, from its home planet to its life in the cantina.
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Animal Autobiography
If you were an animal, what kind would you be, and what would a day in your life be like?
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Embracing the Archetypes
Consider your life as it fits into the traditional story archetypes (the journey, the transformation, etc.) and write your autobiography.
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Eras of Yore
Choose an era in history and create a fictional autobiography of someone living during that period.
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Rita’s Retrospective
If Rita Skeeter was to write an autobiography, how would she portray her life and career?
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The Phantom’s Memoir
Ghostwrite an autobiography from the perspective of a ghost, detailing its life before and after death.
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Mystique Memoirs
You are a ghost who decides to write your own autobiography detailing your life after death.
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Midnight Memoirs
Envision you are a ghostwriter hired to pen the autobiography of a controversial public figure. Detail your thoughts, moral dilemmas and outsider’s perspective.
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Mapping Your Autobiography
Draw a map of significant events in your life, marking the key turning points.
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An Embarrassing Incident
Recount an embarrassing incident from your past and how it still affects you today.
