Client Success: Lynne Byrd Celebrates Community Visionary and Best Friend

“I knew Joyce and her friends very well,” Lynne Barfield Byrd shared of her best friend Joyce Amacher, the community visionary who passed away in February 2017 and is featured in Lynne’s latest book The Queen of Dunwoody.  Lynne and Joyce became fast friends when Lynne’s son and Joyce’s daughter dated and eventually married.  They…

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Teen Instruction: Academic Coaching

Recently, my Academic Coaching was successful for two students, ages 13 and 15. One prepared creative writing and dramatic monologue auditions for an arts magnet school, learning new approaches to excel in writing and presentation.  On her first try, she was accepted! The other, a high school freshman, worked on getting up to speed with…

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Chart A Course To Write Your Memoir

Like clients Kirby and Jonathan, you can write and publish your memoir. Consider the Memoir class as getting your feet wet, the Creative Writers Workshop as training, and personal writer’s coaching & editing as the swim toward the finish line.   Start Somewhere. Diana Nyad, 64, an American long distance swimmer, became the first person…

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