What: Join B. Lynn Goodwin  for a five-week workshop conducted through e-mail.

“We use journaling to relieve the stress of caregiving. Put your truths on paper and share them if you choose to. We’ll only say what we love in the writing”.

Where & When: Offered through group e-mails, starting 8/12 and again 10/14.

Why: Caring for oneself is as essential as breathing, but caregivers lose site of that fact. Journaling is a caregiver’s oxygen mask.

 Who:  Instructor B. Lynn Goodwin, a veteran of over six years of caregiving, is a freelance writer and editor and a former college and high school teacher.

Contact: B. Lynn Goodwin, Lgood67334@comcast.net. Put “Journaling” in the subject box. Want to see if this would work for you? If you have not been in one of my groups, cut and paste 15 to 1500 words of your journaling into the body of an e-mail and send it to me.

Praise for You Want Me to Do What?  Journaling for Caregivers

“I am very grateful for the chance to say how this feels to people who will really get it.”

–Nancy Tune, caregiver and writer, Palo Alto, California

“Writing from the heart seems to be all that is needed.”  –Marilyn A., trainer and coach, Concord, CA

“My spirit has been lifted more in participating with all of you than anything else I’ve tried.”         –Eileen Reynolds, caregiver and former office manager, Antioch, CA

About B. Lynn Goodwin

B. Lynn Goodwin is a freelance writer and editor. Her book, You Want Me To Do What? Journaling for Caregivers, will be out in December 2008. She facilitates journaling workshops for caregivers, which are conducted through e-mail and in person. She just accepted a position as the Journaling for Caregivers expert at Caregivers.com.

Lynn’s publications about caregiving include “Needed” in Voices of Caregivers (October, 2008), “Stressed? Try Journaling,” found at http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/2008/03/stressed-try-journaling.html, and an article in a National Career Development Association (NCDA) monograph on "Career and Caregiving: Putting the Pieces Together” (forthcoming).

She is also published in the Oakland Tribune, the Contra Costa Times, the Danville Weekly, Hip Mama, Staying Sane When You’re Dieting, Small Press Review, Dramatics Magazine, and numerous e-zines.

In addition to writing the interviews and many of the reviews for Writer Advice, she edits and publishes the e-zine. Writer Advice celebrated its ten-year anniversary in October 2007.

Upcoming Events

*** Watch for additions coming soon. ***

E-mail journaling workshops in 2008

Starting August 12 and running 6 weeks – no topic sent the first week in September

Starting again October 14 and running 5 weeks

E-mail Lgood67334@comcast.net for workshop details

E-mail journaling workshops in 2009

*** Dates coming soon ***

Radio interview with writer Lillian Brummet, Fall 2008

Radio interview with Linda Joy Myers, National Memoir Writers Association, January 2009

Presentation for California Writers Club—Tri Valley 2009

About Writer Advice Manuscript Consultation Service

Writer Advice Manuscript Consultation gives you the perspective you need to polish your writing. It is separate from the journaling workshops where we respond to the writing by saying only what we love.

When I do a manuscript consultation, I identify passages I love, mark any places that trip me up, and ask questions when I want the writer or the narrator to dig deeper. I answer whatever questions you send about your manuscript.

Let me know if you want big picture comments, proofreading, line edits, or something else when you e-mail Lgood67334@comcast.net for rates. Put “manuscript consultation” in the subject box.