Maybe you have boxes of photographs. Albums filling a shelf. Thousands—or tens of thousands—of digital images on your phone, computer or somewhere in the cloud.

And every so often you look at them and think:

I’ve got to do something with all these photos.

But, don’t start with the photos. Think instead about what do I want these photographs to do?

Yes, I’ve written a memoir! It arrived last month and took ten years. And it’s only 36 pages.