It’s a brilliant opportunity by the way to follow the entire How To Write Your Life Story program in a beautiful environment and with lovely food. Thanks to Lois and Bill, who run The Watermill at Posara for inviting [...]
|
|
|||
   |
 interviews & new releasesThey say you should write about what you know, right? So, when Sue Walker retired to Spain in 2008 and spotted an advert for a writing competition she decided to give it a go. Now, she has a website EyeOnSpain to accompany her book Retiring the Ole Way. As a child Sue Walker lived in Canada, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, and she has enjoyed moving house ever since. Her most recent and most problematic movewas from London to Spain in 2008. She is now enjoying her new life in Jumilla, a traditional Spanish town in the north-east of Murcia, far from the typical expat urbanisations. [...] writingThis month, in my column, as Writer in Residence, for The Hague Online, I wrote about the magic of writing and how, sometimes, my characters actually teach me stuff I didn’t know… weird [...] life storyIt’s always cool to be invited to guest post on other sites, so when I was asked to contribute to HSBC’s Expat Explorer blog I jumped at the chance. Here is my post for you. booksI just wrote a piece about how to write about your life experience overseas for a website called Khiruna. If you would like to find out more and dip into some tips and ideas then click here. expatriate stuffIf you live abroad and are thinking of writing your life story, these ten tips I wrote for Moldova.org could be just what you need. To read the full article, click here. booksI just wrote this piece about how to write life story for Cyprus Mail. It includes examples of the different ways you could tackle writing your own memoir if you too, like me, live abroad and just know your experiences have value and can help other people. click here to read the story about meI’ve lived abroad for 28 years. Writing has saved my life. Find out how, [...] about meI am delighted to announce that within minutes of my 26th book being published Craig Toedtman, President of Options Resource Careers in PA ordered 200 copies for his clients. ‘This will be a great addition to our packets….with hopes of many more orders to come!’ wrote Craig in an email to me in which he confirmed [...] inspirationYesterday I ran my Expat Writer – Break into Writing course. I love doing this and have now had more than 600 students, would you believe? This time the students came from as far apart at Argentina, Indonesia, Slovakia and Russia. This class involves a lot of practical writing and the students had to interview [...] |
 |
|
|
Copyright © 2012 Jo Parfitt - All Rights Reserved |
|||