“Get your story, your nuances, your frustrations, your hopes, and your love on the page. Your story is buried treasure.”  --B. Lynn Goodwin

Writer Advice

January - March 2010

You Want Me to Do WHAT?
Journaling for Caregivers

Writing relieves stress and saves lives. As a caregiver, you spend every spare minute driving to medical appointments, stopping at the pharmacy, cooking, answering questions, paying bills, and helping with matters that used to be private.

Why write about it?

Journals never argue. They let you vent, expound, rationalize, elaborate, and imagine best and worst outcomes. They let you breathe. A journal welcomes your questions and invites you to explore and analyze possible answers. Journals never talk back. Journals let you finish your thoughts and offer silent, unconditional acceptance.

Writing gives perspective and restores sanity. Writing is a lifeline as well as a record. Writing saves lives. Do not underestimate its power.

Ready to give it a try?

TOPICS:

Here are three sentence starts.

Today I believe…

I want to…

I love hearing…

Finish one sentence and go on. Start with what needs to spill out. Let the writing take you wherever it wants to. Feel free to make leaps. Write as much or as little as you want. Trust yourself and trust the process.

Write what is true for you in the moment. When your truths change, you can write different things using the same sentence start.

Eager to share what you wrote and get feedback?  

E-mail it to Lgood67334@comcast.net. You never can tell what she might love in your writing and how that might change your perceptions.

Reviews

Dotsie Bregel's review of You Want Me to Do What? Journaling for Caregivers is at http://www.nabbw.com/list_bookreviews.php?bcategory_id=11

Linda Abbit's review of You Want Me to Do What? Journaling for Caregivers is at
http://tenderlovingeldercare.com/book-review-you-want-me-to-do-what-journaling-for-caregivers#comment-1508

Additional reviews are available on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Me-Do-What/dp/1606962973/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261535386&sr=8-1

Audio

Listen to an interview with Barbara Freisner on Age Wise Living on http://www.modavox.com/voiceamerica/vepisode.aspx?aid=40367 

Listen Here Listen to B. Lynn Goodwin's advice on presenting yourself well in contests as she talks with Linda Joy Myers, President of the National Association of Memoir Writers, http://www.namw.org/

Radio interview with writer Lillian Brummet, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AuthorsRead, Fall 2008
Listen to the archived broadcast at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ConsciousDiscussions/2008/09/18/Writer-Advice

Radio interview with Denise Brown of www.caregiving.com, Fall, 2008 Writing Your Caregiving-Journey http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Caregiving/2008/10/04/Writing-Your-Caregiving-Journey

To hear B. Lynn Goodwin read from You Want Me to Do What? Journaling for Caregivers click on http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AuthorsRead/2009/02/07/Lynn-Goodwin-You-Want-Me-to-do-What

Listen to Lynn Goodwin, author of You Want Me to Do What? -- Journaling for Caregivers on Jacqueline Marcell’s Coping With Caregiving radio show, Segment 3. Jacqueline is an eldercare advocate, international speaker, and the author of the bestselling book Elder Rage.

B. Lynn Goodwin’s interview with Annie Fox is available at http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/14/for-parents-when-parents-need-parenting/

B. Lynn Goodwin’s interview with Theresa Chaze is available at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze/2009/06/21/Until-You-Walk-the-Path-You-Dont-Know-Where-it-Goes

Eager to know more?

Explore the pages behind the buttons in the left-hand column. If you have questions about the book, about workshops, or about anything else, please e-mail Lgood67334@comcast.net.