Welcome to the Free Seven-Day Writing Challenge. Each day, you will receive a writing prompt in your email inbox. Some days the prompts will take you on trips back to…
“Connecting with other writers via Patricia’s provocative prompts broaden how I see and write about my world. So rewarding!”
—Beverly Bailey, Free Seven-Day Writing Challenge Participant
Once again, it’s time for Writing…
The editing tip for this month comes from master student, Brenda Krygowski. I first met Brenda at a Florida Writers Association event in Tampa a couple of years ago when…
Try out this sample lesson called Quiet the Critic taken from one of my nine video coaching programs, including the next session–Style, Grammar, Punctuation, and More that begins Thursday, June…
Patricia Lancaster and Vera Feyder at Rollins College for the American premiere of Feyder’s play No Deposit, No Return (Emballage perdu) in the Annie Russell Theatre in 1986.
Patricia Lancaster, retired…
Steffenie Widows lives by her mantra: Dream big! Go for it! A few years ago, she decided to travel the world. Today, she is writing a memoir about how the…
I love lists.
I love scratched-up lists, ones painted with rainbows of circles, check marks, and long lines crossing every item off, the paper wrinkled from the various directions I have…
In the last month or so, I’ve had the chance to get out from behind my desk and hold a couple of workshops with some amazing writers, which is my…
I just bought the book Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve by Ben Blatt and thought I’d recommend it to you. The premise fascinates me. Author and statistician, Ben Blatt, assembled…
Perhaps you have read the story about Lauren Blank, a teenager from Texas who shared on Twitter the story about her birthday present from her beloved grandfather. And what was…