Posts by Wayne
Guest Post: The Charming Light Box and a Literary Fetus
This guest post by Creative Writer’s Workshop member Kim Chamberlain, who is steadily making excellent progress with her memoir. Kim is a music teacher, clarinetist and jazz singer with lots of great stories. Kim can be reached at [email protected]. My writing coach’s words from a month ago reverberate inside my head: “You have four long…
Read MoreHocus Focus
In May I did something totally magical: I unplugged. For an entire week. I went to a quiet beach with friends and rarely checked my Iphone, which vacationed in my bedroom drawer. For several days, I had stints alone on the beach for big sums of time. After putting up an umbrella, settling into my…
Read MoreClient Success: Barbara Gray Armstrong Honors Family & Cultural History
“I got the idea to write my book when I thought about how little my children knew about my birth family, my early life, and American history, such as slavery and the civil rights era,” shared author Barbara Gray Armstrong. In Honoring My Journey, she has written a rich family memoir woven into a larger,…
Read MoreClient Success: Author Ann J. Temkin Blends Christianity, Judaism & Memoir
“My inspiration for this book is both my love of God and my own long, winding spiritual journey,” said Ann J. Temkin, author of the newly released Sight In The Sandstorm: Jesus in His World and Mine. A self-described half-breed—the child of a Jewish father and Protestant Mother—Ann expressed her need to bridge her Jewishness…
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