Michelle M. Winner Launches website

Hello all! I'd like to announce the pending launch of my "journalist for hire" website: www.michellemwinner.com This site will provide potential clients an overview of my style. I do travel story assignments, destination pieces, wedding stories, culinary travel, restaurant reviews and personal chef stories. I provide photographs to illustrate my articles. Interested? Stay tuned for the launch invitation. Michelle

Just wrapping my new writing website stay tuned !

Which specifics are a necessity when writing about a locale?

I have no preconceptions when I travel- only wants.

I want a clean soft place to land with clean running water. Some fresh food and good wine or local beverage. I usually want to hear a foreign language and a country that is not engaged in upheaval, kidnapping or a civil war is high on my list. A place that can evoke a spiritual feeling or raise a passionate issue is now becoming a necessity for this jaded writer.

And of course sun,sand,surf and a moon to color my dreams!

What's your favorite place to write about and why?

I'm in love with any island destination.
It could be that I was born under the sign of the crab or grew up surfing, swimming paddling a canoe; always in the ocean. Now, I live part-time in the mountains of Oregon but I must go "home " to my beloved Hawaiian Islands every few months.

I have explored other islands too. Currently I am writing about the string of islands in the Atlantic known as the the Acores. I am fascinated because my ancestors left two of the islands and settled in Hawaii- you see the connection? Let me know about your favorite places to write about here soon! Mw.