Calling all readers, writers, and authors! You won’t want to miss this Saturday’s inaugural Authors in the Park Book Festival at the Winter Park Public Library from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Meet a host of celebrated authors and hear them speak. Participate in panels, book signings, and a keynote address from screenwriter and children’s book author, Geoff…
When Debi Duggar finished the motorcycle course, the instructor gave her a certificate titled Most Likely to Wear Leather. He didn’t know then just how appropriate that title would be.
I am so grateful for the opportunity to help Debi capture her amazing, and sometimes challenging, life in writing to entertain and inspire those fortunate enough…
A great crowd braved traffic and our early evening thunderstorms to participate in Show, Tell, Write Tuesday, September 20th at Infusion Tea. Sponsored jointly by Bookmark It bookstore and Writing Your Life, Show, Tell, Write combines a favorite part of childhood—the chance to share a treasured possession—learn a bit about writing, and practice these new skills,…
Don’t miss poet and author, Richard Blanco, at the Winter Park Writers Festival at Valencia College this Friday, September 30th.
First a civil engineer and poet-on-the-side, Richard Blanco became more widely known in 2012 when he was selected to write a poem for Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration. The youngest poet ever chosen as a U.S. inaugural poet,…
Show, Tell, Write has been such a joy! Have you participated yet, Central Floridians? You have those calendars nearby, right? Go ahead and add Show, Tell, Write, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Infusion Tea to the September 20th box so you don't miss the next one.
So much of our lives can be told through our possessions. August’s Show,…
Want your stories to come to life on the page? Want your readers to see, taste, feel, smell, and hear your memories? Want your writing to feel fresh and new?
Find out how to do that when you join me for my free Writing Detail and Description teleseminar, tomorrow, August 30th at 7:30 p.m. EDT.
Listen to examples…
We all have those milestone birthdays. You know, the ones where the numbers are really round and fat like forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, and so on. These days, quite a few people around me are celebrating the accumulation of decades.
My dad recently turned ninety, and I sat down to write a list of some of…
I don’t know about you, but I always have trouble remembering if certain words should be capitalized when in a title. Also, what is capitalized depends on the style of writing you’re doing. Journalists do it one way, creative writers another, academics a third way. About the only capitalization rules that are consistent include:
capitalize the…
Diane Gosheff with Story
On a whim one day, Writing Your Life class member Diane Gosheff wrote a story and submitted it to a contest sponsored by Guideposts magazine. Her story centered on the amazing and unlikely story of finding her birth father through a library employee who ended up being her cousin. She thought no…
This month’s focus on the upcoming Writing Detail and Description teleseminar and coaching program prompted my interest in bestselling author Thad Carhart’s recent memoir, Finding Fontainebleau. Best known for his 2001 memoir, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, Carhart’s latest work suggests similarly beautiful descriptive writing about his experiences in and memories of France.
Finding…