We held our first-ever Author Showcase on Saturday, November 9, and featured eight Writing Your Life published authors; we missed you Becky McGregor. Festive decorations and yummy food welcomed the authors and their families and friends, longtime WYL class members, and people interested in writing their life stories. Our lively audience celebrated the featured authors'…
This Week's Writing Prompt
Recently, I took an early evening walk in the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Sybelia in Maitland and heard an owl’s characteristic hoo-hoo-hoo-hoooo, which sounded something like, “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you?”
I followed his call, expecting this to be the cry of a small owl I’d never find…
Writing Your Life's Author Showcase
We held our first-ever Author Showcase on Saturday, November 9, and featured eight Writing Your Life published authors; we missed you Becky McGregor. Festive decorations and yummy food welcomed the authors and their families and friends, longtime WYL class members, and people interested in writing their life stories. Our lively…
A genealogical research trip in England and Scotland gave Robin the bug to continue researching her family history for the next twenty years. Her forthcoming book, They’re in My Blood, traces her family lines and their stories back to the 1600s.
“Twenty years ago, I began to research and visit my English and Scottish lines.…
What prompted John MItchell to write a book about his thirty-year naval career?
“At the magic age of seventy, I really began thinking about some of the interesting things I had seen and done and participated in earlier in my lifetime that perhaps my family and close friends didn’t know about. I decided I needed…
Peggy Best shares what inspired her to write about her experience in a military family in her memoir Dandelion Child.
In the writing process she found much encouragement: “Writers are special. They help each other. It’s not like, ‘I’m a famous writer. I’m not going to tell anybody anything.’ It’s, ‘I’m a writer; I want…
Writing Your Life Author Updates
Duayne Whitehurst and Sandy Mayton– Writing Your Life’s science-fiction authors finish manuscript
I spent Monday, September 23, in a coaching session for entrepreneurs in Franklin, Tennessee, twenty minutes outside of Nashville. Mid-morning, I asked my tablemates, “Do you feel nervous being here? I feel like a small fish in a…