Do you want to learn how to make people in your life as vivid on the page as they are in your memory? Do you like to paint pictures in the…
Bill Dresser
I first met Bill at a talk I gave in Ponte Vedra, Florida, a couple of years ago. He has since told me that talk provided him with answers…
If you are already a student or fan of memoir, you are likely familiar with Mary Karr who has written several memoirs about her tumultuous childhood in east Texas, her…
Liberty Goetsch
Recently, Liberty and I met to discuss her life story and commit her unique experiences to paper. With help from her supportive husband Gary, she recently began writing and…
I’m reading Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir right now (see review in this newsletter), and it’s a book that has come at the perfect time for me. It’s saying…
Sue and Joe have children they think are the most perfect creatures on earth, and they enjoy talking about their little ones every chance they get. If you met these…
People are the vehicles through which we tell our stories, and places are the containers that hold our experiences, so it’s critical that we write vividly about the people and…
A BeeWee and his donkey, Margie's children and her parents
Helping a person turn the dream of writing her life story into the reality of holding a book in her hands…
I do hope you'll join me for my upcoming workshop, Memoir--Write Your Life, at the Florida Writers Association's Day at the Bay Mini-Conference, May 7th, in Tampa, Florida. Whether you write your life…
Take a fascinating trip through the life and novels of beloved Florida author, Patrick D. Smith, as told by his son, Rick, at the Winter Park Library, Thursday, March 18th…