Charlotte’s 100 life questions

One question a day. One hundred days. Your life story, finally written down.

You’ve lived all those years and so much has happened. Would you like some help to write your story?

I’m Charlotte. I’m a writer – I own and run Golden Bay Weekly, a print paper that lands in over 3,000 letterboxes every week. I’m also a memoir, life story and history writer, publisher and teacher. Asking good questions is, quite literally, my job. And after years of interviewing people for a living, I’ve learned something: everyone has a story worth telling. Most people just need someone to ask them the right questions.

That’s what this is.

How it works

Sign up, and for the next 100 days, you’ll get one question in your inbox. Just one. No pressure to write an essay – just the space to answer your question.

Somedays it’ll be a question like this:

What were your first days of school like?

Other days there will be more in depth questions like this:

Did you reach a point, in your middle age, where you needed to make some life changes?

Why questions, and why me?

Anyone can hand you a list of writing prompts. I’ve spent my career learning which questions actually get people talking — the ones that cut past the polished version of a story and get to the real one.

Think of this as me, sitting across from you with a notebook, asking the questions a good interviewer asks – just one at a time, for a hundred days.

Who this is for?

  • Anyone who’s ever thought ‘I should write down my stories’ and never known where to start
  • People who want to leave something real behind for their kids and grandkids
  • Anyone curious about their own life, seen through fresh eyes
  • Non-writers – you don’t need to be ‘good at writing.’ You just need to answer honestly.

What you get

  • 100 thoughtful, story-unlocking questions – delivered one per day, straight to your inbox
  • A gentle, no-pressure structure – five minutes a day, that’s it
  • A finished collection of memories and reflections by the end, ready to keep, share, or build into something bigger.

Ready to start?

$97 — one payment, 100 days of questions.