In the last month, I’ve had the great pleasure of spending time with genealogists in Flagler County, The Villages, and Sarasota. Many of them have been researching family history for thirty years or more; one woman dedicated much of the last sixty years to discovering branches of her family tree. That’s a lot of names,…
Thank you so much for the warm welcome to The Villages Genealogical Society. I was quite impressed with your group and the quality of writing in the few exercises we read. I'm sure yours was wonderful, too. Here's a link to a copy of the poem I read, "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon and…
What do you think it would feel like to be ninety-two years old when one day someone hands you back your teenaged self? That’s exactly what happened for Florence Wolfson Howitt in July 2006 when a New York Times reporter reunited Florence with the five-year journal she received as a gift for her fourteenth birthday…
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 Florida Writers Association’s eleventh annual conference this weekend.
More than six hundred writers of all levels and genres gathered at the Lake Mary Marriott…
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 on Friday, October 19th and runs through Sunday, October 21st. On Friday, Patricia Charpentier, award winning author of Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One…
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.
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