personal story
- narrativeAccount of events
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- anecdoteBrief account of incident
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
autobiography · journey · experience · telling · intimate · vulnerable · heartfelt · sharing · revelation · memory · voice · truth · struggle · triumph · healing · survivor · witness · firsthand
- nonfictionbiography, autobiography, biographies, history, memoir
- storiesstory, tale, tales, myth, legend
- blog postsarticle, entry, post, listicle, how-to
- testimonyoral testimony, court testimony, sworn testimony, witness statements, sworn statements
- indie filmindie films, indie film, independent, low budget, independent film
- narrativesnovel, short story, memoir, fable, tale
scope and perspective
personal storyofficial history
Government-endorsed version of events
public record · grand narrative · national history · world history · statistical data
factuality and genre
personal storyfiction
Imagined narrative work
fabrication · fictional tale · fantasy · tall tale · myth
communication mode
personal storydata analysis
Systematic information interpretation
empirical study · scientific paper · technical documentation · raw data · academic discourse