Disjointed Biographies are an issue that people can have while writing a biography. This phenomenon occurs when somebody is writing a biography and doesn’t have any link between the different stories being told in their piece of literature. The effect is multiplied if the segments are not in chronological order. In Mark Twain’s Autobiography, he tells stories from vastly different parts of his life out of order. This causes confusion, for, upon reading any given chapter, I have no clue what age Twain is. This makes the biography fell convoluted and difficult to understand.
There are a few ways to fix this: The first is to make sure you tell your individual stories chronologically. Taking them out-of-order, as with most stories, doesn’t make any sense, and causes confusion. The second way is by trying to joint your stories together. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for this, simply because every story is different, and it might be hard to link them together, but you have to do your best. If you are jumping through time, try and link them with the thing you are doing. Give dates to indicate how much time has passed from one story to another. These are all things you can do to simplify your autobiography and make it feel less disjointed and sporadic.
In short, a consistent flow is important to any piece of literature, but it is especially hard when you are writing an autobiography because you can’t talk about every minute detail in your days. There have to be some time skips. You need to mitigate the effect of these time jumps as much as possible by re-introducing links between events, and introducing flow.