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It’s all about perspective

SpotlightNovember 22, 2012591Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've been thinking today about who we are when we write — and I don’t mean how we view ourselves as people, but who we are as storytellers — because when we write, we can do so from many different perspectives. Depending on what we’re writing about, we can be whomever we want to be. …

Fall 2012 Writing Marathon

SpotlightNovember 22, 2012606Views 0Likes 0Comments

What a lovely day on the lake. The Fall 2012 Writing Marathon held on Lake Fairview on Saturday, November 3rd, couldn't have been more perfect. The weather was ideal, we had a great potluck, and people went out and sat by the lake to write. How inspiring. Throughout our day we used a variety of motivational writing…

Turkey Talk

SpotlightNovember 21, 2012796Views 0Likes 0Comments

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and you know we have to talk turkey in this week’s Wednesday writing prompt. We could write about how grateful we are for the many blessings we experience each and every day—and I encourage you to do that—but for today’s writing exercise, let’s write about turkey days that didn’t go quite like…

The Best Vacation Ever!

SpotlightOctober 29, 2012991Views 0Likes 0Comments

Last Sunday, a group of sixteen Writing Your Lifers got a taste of what’s to come on the Writing the Waves cruise, which sets sail on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas on May 12, 2013. We spent time touring the ship and enjoying a wonderful sit-down lunch. Unfortunately, we had to leave at 3:00…

Writing with photographs, part two

Love to WriteOctober 15, 20121KViews 0Likes 0Comments

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 picture has to tell and answer the basic who-what-where-when-why-how questions. Now, let’s focus our attention on what to do with the information gleaned from…

Birds of a Feather

SpotlightOctober 8, 2012569Views 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…

Wednesday’s writing prompt for September 26, 2012

SpotlightOctober 1, 2012426Views 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, 20121KViews 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, 2012683Views 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…

Mabel Wagner celebrates publication of Lest I Forget

SpotlightSeptember 24, 20121KViews 0Likes 0Comments

On Friday morning, I had the great privilege of delivering a newly published book to a client. My husband Bob helped me transfer thirteen boxes of Lest I Forget: The Wagner Family, Pioneers of Trellis Bay, Beef Island, BVI from the backseat of my car to the living room of the author, Mabel Wagner. Even…