Writing Your Way to Happiness

By TARA PARKER-POPE

 JANUARY 19, 2015 5:30 PM 

January 19, 2015 5:30 pm

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THE WELL COLUMN

Tara Parker-Pope on living well.

The scientific research on the benefits of so-called expressive writing is surprisingly vast. Studies have shown that writing about oneself and personal experiences can improve mood disorders, help reduce symptoms among cancer patients, improve a person’s health after a heart attack, reduce doctor visits and even boost memory.

Now researchers are studying whether the power of writing — and then rewriting — your personal story can lead to behavioral changes and improve happiness.  Click here to read the rest

List of Card Companies to Submit Art or Card Word Lines

 ARTIST and WRITERS GUIDELINES

  Compiled and Updated by Kate Harper

Want to submit your art or writing to a greeting card company? Check out the links below for company submission guidelines - See more at: http://kateharperblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/10-card-publishers-artist-and-writer.html#sthash.LEu8kJbj.dpuf

Artist & Writer Submission Guidelines for Card Companies

Get Connected with Card Design

Take an Online Class: Getting Into the Greeting Card Business.
Sign up for Kate's Facebook page with daily updates.

- See more at: http://kateharperblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/10-card-publishers-artist-and-writer.html#sthash.LEu8kJbj.dpuf

Here's Katie's whole list of companies to submit art or card word lines to Click here

What are your 2015 Storytelling, Writing, and Publishing goals?

It's almost New Year's Eve.  On that evening all of us are super heroes believing we can do almost anything.

"I will write 1,200 sets of Encyclopedias this year in French."

At some point dreams meet realism which isn't all bad, but don't let your dreams dissolve into crumbs like an old stale cookie on the floor

                                               "I once longed to eat you."


Here's to coaching you into fulfilling your writing and publishing dreams.  I will be teaching several writing conferences in 2015 year online and in person, so please send me an email if interested in knowing more details.  cherylmoeller at comcast.net

I also have excellent experienced editors to refer you to that can coach or edit personally for you.  cherylmoeller at comcast.net


Storytelling in a Digital Age Conference:  Storytelling, Writing, Blogging/Social Media, Speaking, and Publishing with Cheryl Moeller

Mckenzie House B and B, Possible Venue for a Future Writing Retreat!

We first noticed Mckenzie House above the other bed and breakfast establishments in Amish County because our youngest daughter is named Mackenzie, so it was worth clicking on the website.

What we found when we visited where the air is sweeter and the birds are whistling a clearer sound was spectacular.




Please look around on Mckenzie House Bed and Breakfast website Click here
Featured recently in Midwest Living Click here
Updated information for latest happenings on facebook for Mckenzie House Click here

Can you believe we had never been to the Shipshewana and Middleburg area of Amish Country in Indiana?
We discovered a real delight that we want to return to soon.

Equally delightful as the venue were the InnKeepers, Bruce and Sherry...

The Bed and Breakfast and rooms are named after their grown daughters.  Bruce and Sherry are just like family, as hosts and as cooks. Excellent breakfast with all of the fixings done like a festive holiday brunch.  We could not have been more well pleased in every way.

We are thinking of doing a marriage retreat and/or another event like a writing conference at this venue fall 2014. What do you think?  Would you like to attend?  Write to us at cheryl@forkeepsministries.com or leave us a comment

Cheryl's Writing, Storytelling, and Publishing in a Digital Age Conference (three day)

Cheryl's Writing, Storytelling, and Publishing in a Digital Age Conference (three day)
For all Ages 12 to 80 

Writing, Storytelling, Blogging, Publishing, and Speaking... 
(One day is some of the material covered in the one day conference, also. Some students attend both.)

Venue:
Bethany Baptist Church, 6700 W. Gunnison Street, Harwood Heights, IL, 60706, five miles east of O'hare.

Time: Three days, Monday-Wednesday, July 21-23, 10:000 am- 4:00 pm.

Cost: Includes notes. Lunch is on your own. Please bring a brown bag lunch, drinks, water, and fruit snack.

Cheryl Moeller, B.S., M.A.R., authored or co-authored ten books. For Cheryl's books Click here. A literary agent from 1992-2002, she's now an author and conference speaker.

Registration: E-mail Cheryl at cherylmoeller@comcast.net or call 847 770 2717 for questions and to R.S.V.P. $50 for suggested gift donation. $75 total for two family members. $100 Family Max.
Donation is not tax deductible because you are getting a service rendered. Checks can be made payable to "For Keeps Ministries", cash or bank cards, if you choose. (We have a way to swipe your bank card through our iphone.)

Cheryl Moeller's One Day Writing Conference for Students

Student? Join us, Wednesday, July 16

Cheryl Moeller's One Day Writing Conference for Students
For Junior High, Senior High and College Students 
Parents and Adults are Welcome in back as a student, also 

Three Sessions to teach you the secrets of writing:
How to pick your topic.
Easy fool-proof ways to edit your paper.
Use what you know and your own personal stories to write your paper.

Where: Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 500 N. Dunton Avenue, Arlington Heights, IL 60004-5910 in upstairs large room.

When: Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Time: 10:00 Am to 4:00 Pm

Cost: Includes notes. Lunch is on your own. Please bring a brown bag lunch, drinks, water, and fruit snack. I have paid an extra fee so we can have food and drink in the room.

E-mail Cheryl at cherylmoeller@comcast.net for details.

Cheryl Moeller, B.S., M.A.R., authored or co-authored ten books. For Cheryl's books Click here. A literary agent from 1992-2002, she's now an author and conference speaker.

Registration: E-mail Cheryl at cherylmoeller@comcast.net for questions and to R.S.V.P. $25 for suggested gift donation. $35 total for two family members. $45 Family Max.
Donation is not tax deductible because you are getting a service rendered. Checks can be made payable to "For Keeps Ministries", cash or bank cards, if you choose. (We have a way to swipe your bank card through our iphone.)

Five Things Writers Can Learn from Fly Fishermen

by Greg Lhamon • 2 Comments

There is an pecking order among fishermen. It’s an iron-clad hierarchy. Inviolable.

At the very bottom of the pyramid is the guy who uses a bobber. What is sporting or even interesting about sticking a worm on a hook, tossing it into the water, and then sitting there waiting for the bobber to move? How inelegant. There are only three people who should use bobbers:  six year olds, 87 year olds, and Huck Finn. But most guys who fish bobbers just sit in the boat and drink beer.

Next on the list are the guys who use lures. It’s a rather large step up the ladder because it at least it requires a bit of skill in the presentation and retrieve. Many fine and respectable men fish with lures.  Click here