Writing Life Stories

Join me on Zoom for a two-hour free class on writing about your life. Read more about it here. When you write your life stories, you want to...

My students know that I am a follower of Bobbie Christmas, editor, and writer. She is one of the most astute people on the subject of writin...

Today is Sunday already. I slept most of Saturday. I needed the rest from the chronic pain I seem to live with daily now. But I am...

I follow a blog, Searching for Seva, Finding Wholeness Again by Helping Others. The author is Jan DeBlieu.  This is the link to her b...

Thursday, March 9. Tonight I read three pages from a memoir I began some years ago. I read them at our critique group, and I am so glad I ...

About ten years ago when I began seriously teaching mature adults to write their life stories, I had been invited to a program called EAGLE...

I wish all of you could be here in our little town to hear Steve Harvey talk about his writing and his new book just out. You can find his ...

This is a question I hear every time I teach a workshop or course on Writing About Your Life. Often when we begin to write about family, ...

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....

Saturday, October 19, 2:30 p.m. at Moss Library in Hayesville, NC, three authors will join me on a panel discussion, Prepare to Publish.  ...

Visit Bill Ramsey's website and see how he has written his life story. The photos take me back to those years he writes about, 1950 ...

I have a new blog URL listed on the sidebar under Great Places to Visit. The blogger is Kathy Rhodes who edited a great southern themed o...

Growing up near where Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, GA, I heard some horrific stories from my father about treatment of black ...

Barry and I met on the fourth of July. That was a turning point in my life.  First Christmas in our Mountain Home. We were...

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....

Come on, tell me. What good old home remedies work for head and chest congestion that hangs on and on? I've tried the whiskey and  hone...

Successful author, Judy Goldman, wrote a post on her blog with some very good advice for finding an agent for your novel or memoir. Many bo...

"Shall I begin with the day I was born?" "I just get overwhelmed when I try to think about writing about my life. I'm 70...

Classes are taught at the studio of Glenda Beall in Hayesville, NC. Three hour workshops are $30. Contact glendabeall@msn.com for registrat...

From Maureen Ryan Griffin's newsletter, I found this site with a good post for those of us who write personal essays (memoir pieces). ...