Melissa I. Hassard

Okay, lots of good stuff happening: Tomorrow is the Soul Collage and Writing Workshop. Judith Behar, Donna Anthony, Kim Goldstein and myself will be facilitating. Cost is nominal. Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll put you in touch with Judith. Monday, June 17, is Monday Night Poetry at the Central Branch of the […]

This is a phenomenal opportunity to spend a few hours writing with Keith Flynn and other area writers. Join us for an afternoon of ideas and rhythms to jumpstart the creative process. Sunday, June 2, 2013, 2:00-5:00pm, Kathleen Clay Edwards Branch of the Greensboro Public Library Cost $25  | Register at Eventbrite here. The photographer, […]

Saturday, June 1, 7:00pm, Keith Flynn joins us here in Greensboro to read from his latest collection, Colony Collapse Disorder, with an open mic to follow. Tate Street Coffeehouse. Sunday, June 2, at 2:00-5:00pm, Inspiration Station, a creative writing workshop with Keith at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Branch of the Greensboro Public Library. Cost: $25  REGISTRATION HERE. Keith […]

If you’re not familiar with Writing for Peace, please take a moment and peruse the website of this wonderful organization.  They are a group of extremely talented writers, From their website: Writing for Peace is a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating empathy through education and creative writing in order to develop a foundation of compassion on which […]

Improve your website’s traffic and establish your expertise. Editing your content/blog for SEO means thinking in terms of how you want your clients and potential clients to find you.  It’s a matter of asking the right questions and making sure you answer them. 1.  Include whole phrases and questions that your clients or potential clients […]

“Don’t write for therapy. It won’t help and you’ll write shit. Write fiction. Good, honest, true fiction. You’ll experience great freedom. Be a brave writer and a cowardly editor. Save everything. Lose nothing.”   Thank you for this advice, T.  I saved it, of course.  – mih

The word “blog” seems to still conjure up, in some, images of family vacations or meals on the table.  It’s a dated term. But content writing/blogging for business has never been more important.  Because of the way SEO works, Google, Bing and Yahoo all rank sites according to the content on your site.  And now, […]

The world will break your heart – love it anyway. Do not curl up in your shell and wait for it to go away – it’s going to do that whether or not you turn your back and probably sooner than would be comfortable to know. Be a brave writer.  Say the things you are meant […]

Free and open to the public!  Also available to attend virtually online. Picture this: You return to your desk at home ready for a productive writing session only to discover that your drink has been knocked over onto your computer by a  culprit whose shadow is disappearing around a corner — and now a month’s […]

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and […]