What a great weekend at the Amelia Island Book Festival! For anyone who loves writing and books, the festival was the place to be. Accomplished authors and those in the process of writing books attended the Writer's Workshop to learn more about publishing and the craft of writing. I felt privileged to do two workshops--Make…
We know it’s cold outside, so we’re giving you a great reason to stay inside. You guessed it-start writing! Here's a winter writing prompt to warm you up.
What could be better on a frigid gray day than to settle in over a hot, steamy bowl of soup? It's already shaped up to be a…
What is your one word for 2019?
How did you arrive at this particular word? What does it mean to you? How will this word shape your commitments, goals, and choices? Does this word connect to a theme related to your aspirations for 2019?
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We’d love to hear about your one word. Share your response to…
Have you had your best year ever? What was it like? When did it happen? What made that year the best? What did you do to get there? How did that year impact you? What happened as a result? Did other people know it was a great year for you?
If you're still working towards…
For bibliophiles, the thought of a library catching fire and torching hundreds of thousands of books, is horrific. That such a fire would be an act of arson is unthinkable. Yet that is exactly what happened at the Los Angeles Central Library on April 29, 1986, which raged for more than seven hours, destroying or…
Everyone has or knows of a Thanksgiving disaster story. Sooner or later, some kind of holiday hullabaloo occurs. Maybe it's that time the turkey was dropped. Or the time when crazy Uncle Ed wore the clown suit and all of the toddlers screamed. Or that time the refrigerator blew out.
My assistant, Amanda, told me about…
Have you made up your own word that you use often? Is it a nonsense word? What is it? How would you define it? In what kinds of contexts do you use it? Have others picked up your word and begun using it? Is it silly or serious?
Perhaps you have a favorite word that is…
Teacher Becomes a Student - November 17, 2018
Patricia and Eleanor Matthews laughing it up at Nobody’s Perfect: Critical Collaboration and Creative Revision
It's fun when the teacher becomes the student as I did Saturday, November 17, 2018, at the editing workshop, Nobody's Perfect: Critical Collaboration and Creative Revision, taught by Eleanor Matthews, writer-in-resident at the Jack Kerouac…
They say a picture's worth a thousand words, so a photograph will surely help to get you writing, right?
For this week's writing prompt, I'd like you to mentally look around your home, in scrapbooks and photo albums, in various folders on your computer, anywhere you have pictures, and make a list of your favorite photographs.…
Today is Halloween. Do you have your candy bowl and a costume ready?
Holidays are always so full of memories, thanks to their upkeep of traditions; their abundance of sights, sounds, smells, and tastes; and the way they stand out from all the other days in our lives.
Today, I'd like you to bring one of your…