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Try Keeping a Five-Year Journal for a Week

NewsJanuary 26, 2016362Views 0Likes 0Comments

The year is still young, and now is a great time to begin keeping a five-year journal. At the beginning of January, I heard from so many people, telling me how glad they were to have written in their journals throughout 2015. Now, on a daily basis, they are able to see what each day…

My Southern Journey: True Tales for the Heart of the South Rick Bragg

NewsJanuary 26, 2016724Views 0Likes 0Comments

Whenever Pulitzer-prize winning author Rick Bragg shows up, offering to take me on a trip through the South, I pack my bags and join the caravan. Such is the case with his latest book, My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South. With Bragg as guide, the party tromps through the red…

January 2016 Writing Events

NewsJanuary 7, 2016508Views 0Likes 0Comments

Happy New Year from Writing Your Life! Let's start the new year off with a bang...and a big bang for your buck. If you need inspiration, motivation, encouragement, and advice to start writing the stories you've been wanting to write, look no further. Writing Your Life has a number of events this month to help you start…

It’s baaaaaack…

NewsDecember 22, 2015541Views 0Likes 1Comment

We're all about shopping and presents and family get-togethers and food right now, so you probably aren't thinking much about writing. You're too busy making the memories you'll write about later. Well, here's the perfect plan to get back in the writing groove after the first of the year: Writing Your Life's world famous Free Seven-Day…

Stop Talking, Start Writing Your Life Story Workshop

NewsDecember 22, 2015395Views 0Likes 0Comments

The start of a new year is the perfect time to begin a life story writing project, and Patricia Charpentier wants to help you do just that. We love to tell our stories -- the funny ones, the heartbreaking ones, the unbelievable ones -- because in sharing our stories, we connect with others. But at…

Hang Out with Literary Legends

NewsDecember 22, 2015480Views 0Likes 0Comments

John Grisham Stephen King If you’d like to rub shoulders with two of the most popular, bestselling authors of all time—John Grisham and Stephen King—and you have a bit of cash to donate to a good cause, check out this event sponsored by the Manatee County Library Foundation. Hear what these literary legends have to say…

Gabriel Herrera

NewsDecember 22, 2015846Views 0Likes 0Comments

A few weeks ago at A Better You Expo, an amazing boy stood before me and told me he wanted to buy my book because he was going to write his life story. His name is Gabriel Herrera, and he is ten years old. That day, Gabriel convinced me that you are never too young…

December 2015 Writing Prompt of the Month

NewsDecember 22, 2015597Views 0Likes 3Comments

My mentor, Lezlie Laws of LifeArt Studio, is big on gratitude, regardless of life’s circumstances and has me writing a gratitude list every day. It works. No matter what’s going on, during the time I’m making that list, I am focused on the positive. I find myself looking for good things throughout the day, so…

Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

NewsDecember 22, 2015528Views 0Likes 0Comments

I have grammar and editing on the brain as I celebrate the latest graduates of the Edit Like an Expert program, which is why Mary Norris's Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen caught my eye. With chapter titles like “Spelling Is for Weirdos,” Norris, longtime copy editor for The New Yorker, writes about life and language,…

Get Started–Write My Story Teleseminar

NewsDecember 22, 2015433Views 0Likes 0Comments

Don't miss this week's fun, FREE teleseminar. Get inspired and get started writing your stories. We all know looking at a large project from the starting line can be daunting. The road ahead looks long and difficult, filled with potholes, detours, and dead ends. Getting started writing your life story can feel like that, but it…

Try Keeping a Five-Year Journal for a Week

My Southern Journey: True Tales for the Heart of the South Rick Bragg

January 2016 Writing Events

It’s baaaaaack…

Stop Talking, Start Writing Your Life Story Workshop

Hang Out with Literary Legends

Gabriel Herrera

December 2015 Writing Prompt of the Month

Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Get Started–Write My Story Teleseminar

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