I spent some of last Saturday in Clermont and was reminded just how different the landscape can be only a few miles away. The terrain went from flat to slight…
Writing conversations flowed, attendees exchanged business cards and dreams, and tips on everything from point of view to editing to writing stories for Chicken Soup for the Soul swirled around…
The Magic of the Pen
Friday, October 19th – Sunday, October 21st
Orlando Marriott in Lake Mary
The Florida Writers Association’s annual conference, The Magic of the Pen, officially begins…
In last week’s post on Writing with Photographs, we talked about ways to look at photographs—how to systematically examine the photograph’s physical characteristics, inventory the image, listen for the story…
The first edition of Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time did not contain an index. All subsequent editions have a thorough index.
If you own a…
Imagine this...a cool, fall breeze in your face, a front row seat on a beautiful Florida lake, the company of others who love to write, time set aside to put…
Photographs are wonderful things, especially nowadays, if we actually take them out of our cameras and do something with them. I think of that commercial where a kid cannon-balls off…
I like birds. I don’t consider myself a birder, but I do enjoy watching our feathered friends—those that used to hang around the feeder at my old house and the…
My name is Judy Otto. I have lived in Florida most of my life and have never been on a Caribbean cruise. So, I thought, "What better way to start than with…
After a full day of learning all about marketing, contracts, copyright, e-books and obtaining book reviews and testimonials, members of the 2012 Florida Publishers Association donned their fancy clothes and…