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Fall 2012 Writing Marathon

SpotlightOctober 8, 2012171Views 0Likes 0Comments

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 words on paper and a delicious potluck lunch. Now doesn't that sound like a great time? If so, join us for the Fall Writing Marathon,…

Writing with photographs

Love to WriteOctober 8, 2012224Views 0Likes 0Comments

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 the diving board and is forever stuck in midair, pleading with his mother to free him. I have a few hostages like that in my…

Birds of a Feather

SpotlightOctober 8, 2012152Views 0Likes 0Comments

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 ones that come to visit the lake where I live now. I often observe unusual bird situations like a couple of weeks ago when thirty…

Writing Your Life at the Riverview Library

SpotlightOctober 1, 2012171Views 0Likes 0Comments

Angela Orford, working on a writing assignment "There are as many ways to write life stories as there are people to write them," said Patricia Charpentier to patrons of the Riverview Library on Saturday, September 22, 2012. Following a short writing exercise, Patricia then proceeded to discuss methods used by some of the people she's worked…

Wednesday’s writing prompt for September 26, 2012

SpotlightOctober 1, 2012132Views 0Likes 0Comments

One small step... Last month, we lost an American hero, astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, the first man to set foot on the moon, the one who mouthed those iconic words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” What do you remember or have been told about this memorable…

Start with a timeline

Love to WriteOctober 1, 2012275Views 0Likes 0Comments

Anyone who talks with me for five minutes knows that I am all about taking the large lives we’ve lived and breaking them into smaller, more manageable pieces, hence the name of my book, Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time. But I also believe that we gain great insight and…

Writing the Waves presentation welcomes new cruisers

CruiseSeptember 24, 2012228Views 0Likes 0Comments

On Thursday, September 20, 2012, Patricia Charpentier of Writing Your Life and Pat Coamey of Group Travel Specialists joined forces to give attendees a glimpse of what great adventures await them on the Writing the Waves cruise next May. Pat Coamey showed a video of life onboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas that featured…

Remembering, drafting, editing, proofreading, sharing

Love to WriteSeptember 24, 2012291Views 0Likes 0Comments

What do you see in this title? A brief description of the writing process? Yes, but what else? All the words end in ing? Right. So, what?I love ing words. They often help create a rhythm and a cadence that is pleasing to my ear. They move my sentences merrily along in a babbling brook…

They came, they learned, they wrote…

SpotlightSeptember 10, 2012171Views 0Likes 0Comments

Thirteen members participated in the Write Your Life Story – The Basics workshop on Saturday, September 8th. Click here to see photographs of the event. We began the day with a writing exercise everyone used to introduce themselves and talk more about what motivates them to put words to paper. Some said they write in hopes…

Smithsonian Institution Journey Stories Exhibit

SpotlightSeptember 10, 2012210Views 0Likes 0Comments

At the Amelia Island Genealogical Society a few weeks back, a woman mentioned the Smithsonian Institution’s Journey Stories exhibit traveling the United States. I looked into it and found that Florida was one of the tour’s early stops. The Gateway Center for the Arts in DeBary, Florida, is currently hosting the exhibit through October 13th. This…