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Fall 2012 Writing Marathon

SpotlightOctober 8, 2012572Views 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, 2012744Views 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, 2012594Views 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, 2012469Views 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, 2012448Views 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…

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…

Meet the Fall 2012 Writing Your Life Class

SpotlightSeptember 17, 2012395Views 0Likes 0Comments

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…

Overcoming writer’s block

Love to WriteSeptember 17, 2012635Views 0Likes 0Comments

You know the feeling. You show up to your writing table at the appointed time. You have a steaming cup of coffee or tea ready to assist you with the flow of words onto the page. Your writing tools are present and accounted for. You’re ready to write. Then, nothing. Silence. No happy hum of…

Find the right title for your story

Love to WriteSeptember 10, 2012842Views 0Likes 0Comments

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…