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If you live in the areas of Amelia Island, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and surrounding locales or if you need an excuse to stay in one of Fernandina Beach's amazing B&Bs, make a plan to join me for one or both of my appearances there in August. Monday, August 14th from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., I'll…

Writing Your Life began producing weekly newsletters about two months ago, and I recently posted a survey to see what you all thought about them. The survey results were helpful and informative, and I thought I’d share what I gleaned from them. Are you curious? I was, too. First, I asked how often you would like…

It’s always a good time to write, but how do you write time? As with just about everything in writing, it depends. According to the Chicago Manual of Style, the guide most creative writers follow, if you plan to use the words o’clock, then write out the time rather than use a numeral. Use o’clock only…

The Space Coast Writers Guild, an organization based in Melbourne, Florida, "dedicated to encouraging, instructing and developing writers of all genres," has issued a call for submissions for their latest anthology, Holidays. The group intends to fill this anthology with a "collection of stories filled with fond recollections of holidays past and present" and accepts…

Last week, I received three requests in one day from people asking for help to write their parents' stories. I regularly get these types of unsolicited requests but not usually three in one day, all from people in the Orlando area. I didn't think much more about this pleasant coincidence and reached out to the…

I’ve been immersed in all things nonphysical these last couple of weeks as I prepare for my Spiritual Memoir workshop this Saturday, July 15th. So, anyway, I’m watching a quirky movie the other night, and the main female character says, “I unfriended God a long time ago.” The way she said it struck me as funny…

More than three years ago, a longtime Florida friend called me to ask a favor: “With my new baby at home, would you take on a few work tasks for me? I’m stretched a little thin.” Since that day back in March 2014, she has added two more babies to her now family of six,…

What do a scientist/animal activist, a boxer, and a rock star have in common? They all wrote spiritual memoirs, and if they did it, so can you. As the wide variety of backgrounds of these authors show, anyone can write spiritual memoir, and spiritual memoir is not necessarily about religion. World famous scientist and United Nations.…