Over the decades many people have approached me in grocery stores, walking on streets, in the post office and other places I frequent when doing daily errands. And each one has told me a long tale of how they want to write and I hear many fascinating stories. I ask them what they have written …
Author Archives: freethepen
Eternal
I am posting my 25th book, Eternal, a book of poems, to encourage you to check the interior on Amazon.com. Poetry books fill the soul. I read them when I need renewal, a moment to catch my breath or when I want to be reminded of the moments that really matter in love, nature, overcoming, …
Writing a Book
There are many styles to writing a book. Check out all the books you have. Some of them write in small chapters. Some of them have separate pages for each segment of a larger story. Some give a full chapter to each character. The structure of the book is important. It holds your story and …
Writing Books
If you have never written a book but desire to, it is easier than you think. But first, you must write. I know, many of you have cringed by now. Books don’t just happen. You must write. Perhaps your desire to write keeps emerging, you fear all the work, you fear the mental strain, you …
Write Your Vision
It is important to create a new vision for your life, especially now that we have gone through a tough year and a half hunkering down and feeling our lives change as COVID hit the nation and the world. It was not unusual to feel high anxiety and low depression as these forced life changes …
Writing Deeper
One of the best ways to get your writing deeper is this wonderful exercise. Take one paragraph out of one of your memoir pieces. Now re-write it into the third person. Re-write it again back into the first person. Although this exercise might be time consuming or frustrating to think about two re-writes, it is …
Writing Memoir
Everyone can write something! You can too! Often people look back at their lives and come up blank. One way to get your memory kicked into gear is to write the years of your life in 5-year blocks from birth to present time. In those 5-year boxes list the significant things that happened, or that …
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