Writing Life Stories

If you are like me, you are staying home and trying to isolate yourself from the world where this pandemic is flying around like wildfire. T...

I finished my August class at Tri-County Community College last night. This was one of those groups of people who seemed to bond right away....

Mt Zion By Gene Vickers The pastor was late and his tardiness allowed time for a sobering walk up the hillside. I didn’t need a com...

Last year two of my poems were published in an anthology, On Our Own, Widowhood for Smarties published by Silver Boomer Books. A few yea...

I imagine most writers give books as Christmas gifts. I know I do. This year I am giving Maren Mitchell's non-fiction book, B...

Have you heard of the Duke University Writers Workshop? The name is changed but the excellent writing instruction has not. Table R...

When we write our life stories, sometimes it is easier to write them as fiction. In fiction we can imagine or make up things that happened....

There are only two more classes in my six week Creative Writing Course at Writers Circle - Dialogue and Characterization. Both of these sub...

"I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within....

The following is a short story, not a memoir, I wrote for an online class I took last year. It was published in Muscadine Lines: A Southern ...