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 eventsIf you have been thinking about taking a course in how to write life story but wishing you lived in the Hague so you could attend my workshops, you will now be pleased to know that How to Write Your Life Stories is going to The Watermill at Posara, near Pisa, Italy, next October (2012). If you would like to learn how to add SPICE to your writing, how to write compelling prose about your experiences and discover how to write in complete stories, then this is the course for [...]  inspirationI like to think that my writing workshops, like a journal, provide exactly the kind of safe environment needed by a new writer. However, I also believe that a safe place is not created overnight. It does not happen immediately. No, it takes a few weeks for the students to begin to trust each other in a class setting and for the journaller to be authentic and to trust that being honest is OK. And it is only once that trust is built that new writers dare to bare their souls and speak their truth. To tell their real [...] expatriate stuffLois and Bill Breckon are running writing competition, called The Posara Prize and that has a whopping £1,000 prize! All you have to do is write a piece of fiction or non-fiction on the subject of a foreigner in Italy and you are in with a chance. I’m not actually sure of the deadline, but I do know that they want entries to be a maximum of 2,000 words. [...] about meAuthors need to get publicity and lots of it, every which way, all the time. So, when Andrea Martins of ExpatWomen.com asked if she could interview me about my new online program, called Definite Articles: how to write and sell winning articles based on your overseas experience I jumped at the chance. As the program [...] inspirationJo Parfitt’s Write Your Life Stories home study program goes on [...] expatriate stuffMaybe I’m mad to be doing this? Why would I want to give away my secrets for free? Maybe I’m just feeling generous? Maybe it’s because November is officially National Novel Writing Month? Or maybe I want to give my 2009 Writing Your Life Story workshops a bit of extra promotion? Anyway, during November I am [...] |
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