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 p.m. while the other guests…
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 the study of our photographs.…
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, held on the shores of…
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 camera right now. Images of…
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 give our stories depth by…
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 twice-weekly parades down the promenade…
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 sort of way, and they…
The start of the Fall 2012 Writing Your Life Class looked and felt like the first day back to school as returning members greeted each other with hugs and smiles and swapped stories about what they did over the summer. They welcomed those new to the group, and finally, we settled in to kick-off the new class session. (Left to…
We had a great Write Your Life Story – The Basics workshop on Saturday where thirteen enthusiastic writers learned about organizing their work, generating story ideas, blocking out a story, revising, proofreading and much, much more. One thing we touched on was how to come up with a good title for your story. Today, let’s take a better look at…
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 of publication, some write…
