Learning how to write your life story – professional writing courses

The author and biographer Dr Andreas Maeckler has helped many people learn how to write and publish their memoirs. Based on his many years of practice, he has developed biographical writing courses and workshops that will help you learn how to create a vivid and compelling record of your memories.

Dr Maeckler’s writers’ workshops make learning how to write fun!

Every week, you will receive a biography assignment in PDF format, with specific work instructions and resources that will guide you step by step on how to write your autobiography. At the same time, you will receive an introduction to creative writing so you can learn to write well right from the start.

Anyone can learn how to write a biography!

Andreas Maeckler says about his biography courses: “I take great pleasure in helping other people learn how to write their life stories. I have been doing this for over twenty years – in academies and now also internationally via the internet. My biography courses are based on this long-standing professional practice with hundreds of participants. Time and again I have been told that people who want to look at their lives more deeply need help to learn how to write a biography. They also like to be able to write at home, so my self-study courses suit them very well. Anyone can learn biographical – or autobiographical – writing techniques in my writing courses! Every week, participants are inspired and motivated anew. This helps them to write a complete record of their life story and achieve a standard of writing they wouldn’t have thought possible at the outset.”

Different writing courses on how to write an autobiography

Dr Maeckler has written four biography courses full of tips and tricks on how to write your biography. The Comprehensive Biography Course, with 101 weekly assignments totalling 688 pages, runs for two years, while the Short Biography Course takes just nine weeks. The “Healing Biography” is an introduction to self-analysis of your inward life and helps to resolve painful memories through writing them down. The Hero’s Journey: Biography leads us back to the sources of strength in our lives.

“The important thing in my writing courses,” says Dr Maeckler, “is to provide participants with an understanding of key dos and don’ts in autobiographical writing and to explain how they and their readers will benefit from observing them. Learning how to write a biography is easy. Anyone can learn how to write well, and when the subject matter is your own life story, it becomes a real pleasure!”

Learning how to write a biography is a way to make sure your life will be remembered

Each biography assignment teaching you how to write your autobiography corresponds to one building block, one stone in the mosaic that is your life – a word picture that grows and takes shape week by week, recreating your life and that of your family with all its ups and downs. Autobiographical writing helps you find yourself again when you think you are lost and don’t know how to go on – especially in times of upheaval or when you have come to a turning point. Ultimately, a biography is like an anchor that keeps you from being forgotten, saving you from being lost in the sea of life!