How to start an autobiography when you feel you have “nothing to tell”

The most common block isn’t style — it’s the belief “my life interests nobody.” A useful autobiography serves you first: seeing the thread. Other people’s interest comes later, if you choose to share.

Start with the concrete

• A place you know by heart.
• A year when something shifted (even gently).
• A person who changed how you see.
• A job or project you left.

Write a scene, not a thesis

Three sentences about one specific evening beat three pages of generalities. The scene opens the door; the chapter grows around it.

On LifArcs, one first chapter + one moment is enough to break the blank page. You can densify later.