Matteo B.Bianchi. Il romanzo che hai dentro - Guida personalissima alla scrittura autobiografica

We all have a story, but few people truly set out to write it. Most of us leave it in the imaginary drawer of future projects, where it ends up remaining—unfinished or merely imagined. Perhaps, we think, it is not interesting enough; we do not have the time; we do not know where to begin or how to build a compelling narrative structure.

After novels in which he explored his adolescence, grief, pain, and self-discovery, The Novel Inside You opens the doors to his narrative workshop. He turns his experience into valuable advice, examines the works of other writers who have engaged with memoir, develops exercises, and warns us about the challenges we will face—while offering much more besides. Page after page, the writing process becomes a revelatory act. Confronting the blank page means looking inward, immersing ourselves in our deepest consciousness, revealing hopes and fears, and facing anguish and love.

It does not matter whether we are writing a private text meant only for family and friends or pursuing the dream of publication: by the end of this highly personal manual, we will have clear coordinates for our path and be ready to save our story from the oblivion of time.

Because we all carry a novel within us—and thanks to the expert guidance of Matteo B. Bianchi, we can begin to face the first page of our lives.