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Landscape of your life

SpotlightOctober 22, 2012680Views 0Likes 0Comments

I spent some of last Saturday in Clermont and was reminded just how different the landscape can be only a few miles away. The terrain went from flat to slight inclines to small hills in a matter of minutes. My car’s engine kicked into a different gear to scale the rise, and from the top,…

Highlights of the Florida Writers Association annual conference

Love to WriteOctober 22, 2012765Views 0Likes 0Comments

Writing conversations flowed, attendees exchanged business cards and dreams, and tips on everything from point of view to editing to writing stories for Chicken Soup for the Soul swirled around the Florida Writers Association’s eleventh annual conference this weekend. More than six hundred writers of all levels and genres gathered at the Lake Mary Marriott…

Florida Writers Association Annual Conference

SpotlightOctober 15, 2012856Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Magic of the Pen Friday, October 19th – Sunday, October 21st Orlando Marriott in Lake Mary The Florida Writers Association’s annual conference, The Magic of the Pen, officially begins on Friday, October 19th and runs through Sunday, October 21st. On Friday, Patricia Charpentier, award winning author of Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One…

Writing with photographs, part two

Love to WriteOctober 15, 20121KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In last week’s post on Writing with Photographs, we talked about ways to look at photographs—how to systematically examine the photograph’s physical characteristics, inventory the image, listen for the story the picture has to tell and answer the basic who-what-where-when-why-how questions. Now, let’s focus our attention on what to do with the information gleaned from…

Index for Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time

SpotlightOctober 8, 2012662Views 0Likes 0Comments

The first edition of Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time did not contain an index. All subsequent editions have a thorough index. If you own a first edition of Eating an Elephant and would like to print an accompanying index for easier reference, click here.

Fall 2012 Writing Marathon

SpotlightOctober 8, 2012776Views 0Likes 0Comments

Imagine this...a cool, fall breeze in your face, a front row seat on a beautiful Florida lake, the company of others who love to write, time set aside to put words on paper and a delicious potluck lunch. Now doesn't that sound like a great time? If so, join us for the Fall Writing Marathon,…

Writing with photographs

Love to WriteOctober 8, 20121KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Photographs are wonderful things, especially nowadays, if we actually take them out of our cameras and do something with them. I think of that commercial where a kid cannon-balls off the diving board and is forever stuck in midair, pleading with his mother to free him. I have a few hostages like that in my…

Birds of a Feather

SpotlightOctober 8, 2012813Views 0Likes 0Comments

I like birds. I don’t consider myself a birder, but I do enjoy watching our feathered friends—those that used to hang around the feeder at my old house and the ones that come to visit the lake where I live now. I often observe unusual bird situations like a couple of weeks ago when thirty…

Judy Otto is cruisin’ with us

Cruise, CruisersOctober 1, 2012986Views 0Likes 0Comments

My name is Judy Otto. I have lived in Florida most of my life and have never been on a Caribbean cruise. So, I thought, "What better way to start than with my friends from Writing Your Life." Since my retirement six years ago, I have been trying to translate my genealogy records into a story that…

Eating an Elephant wins silver!

SpotlightOctober 1, 2012571Views 0Likes 0Comments

After a full day of learning all about marketing, contracts, copyright, e-books and obtaining book reviews and testimonials, members of the 2012 Florida Publishers Association donned their fancy clothes and reassembled for a night of awards. The banquet, featuring prime rib, mussels, clams, fish and crab legs, added to the excitement of the…