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Bringing Your Ancestors to Life

Love to WriteFebruary 12, 20131KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In the last month, I’ve had the great pleasure of spending time with genealogists in Flagler County, The Villages, and Sarasota. Many of them have been researching family history for thirty years or more; one woman dedicated much of the last sixty years to discovering branches of her family tree. That’s a lot of names,…

Make Writing Fun in 2013, day five

Love to WriteJanuary 4, 2013585Views 0Likes 0Comments

Okay, day five, the final P of the pack, and I’ve saved the most important one for last. By now, if you weren’t aware before, you know what type of pen and paper you favor, the pleasure of writing with other people, and how writing in different places can add adventure to your writing time.…

Make Writing Fun in 2013, day four

Love to WriteJanuary 3, 2013566Views 0Likes 0Comments

Welcome to day four of Make Writing Fun in 2013. So far, we’ve talked about good writing pens, writing with people, and writing in fun places. Today, we’ll concentrate on the fourth P, paper. Paper – When writing by hand, the type of paper you choose is important. Usually, the first question…

Make Writing Fun in 2013, day three

Love to WriteJanuary 2, 2013579Views 0Likes 0Comments

On Monday, we talked about how great pens make writing fun and can encourage us to want to write. Yesterday, we focused on not doing it alone. The buddy system works great when it comes to writing. Writing with others holds us accountable and stimulates our memories and imagination. Plus, it’s a great way to…

Make Writing Fun in 2013, day two

Love to WriteJanuary 1, 2013425Views 0Likes 0Comments

Happy New Year, and welcome to day two of Make Writing Fun in 2013. Yesterday, we talked about how important it is to have a pen you enjoy writing with, and I challenged you with the task of finding your perfect pen. Have you done that yet? Today, we’ll focus on the second…

Make Writing Fun in 2013, day one

Love to WriteDecember 31, 2012751Views 0Likes 0Comments

Let’s face it…we all have way too many things we have to do, tasks we consider chores. If we throw writing our life stories into that basket, we’ll never do it. Why would we? In order to get those all-important stories onto paper, we need to make writing fun, turn it into something we look…

Reclaiming a life…The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel

Love to WriteDecember 12, 20121000Views 0Likes 0Comments

What do you think it would feel like to be ninety-two years old when one day someone hands you back your teenaged self? That’s exactly what happened for Florence Wolfson Howitt in July 2006 when a New York Times reporter reunited Florence with the five-year journal she received as a gift for her fourteenth birthday…

Five-year journals

Love to WriteOctober 29, 2012939Views 0Likes 0Comments

I speak to lots of people each month about the many ways to write their life stories, and whenever they hear about the five-year journal and how it works, they get excited. They remind me of myself when I first learned about this wonderful way to record all the ordinary and extraordinary days of our…

Highlights of the Florida Writers Association annual conference

Love to WriteOctober 22, 2012576Views 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…

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…