“I began writing my story at the age of 37, because I’d read that in order to overcome PTSD one had to be able to tell one’s story.” Michele Rosenthal Every now and then when we need help, we’re fortunate enough to know exactly what type we need and where to find it. However, even in [...]
How do you search for writing articles on a particular topic? For most of us, we’d first pull up Google. Let’s say we’re struggling a little bit with POV (point of view) — we’ve gotten some editorial feedback that we’re head-hopping. So we plug in POV to Google. The first result is a documentary series [...]
I should have known. In the passions of finally committing myself to the authorship of a book, one I knew from the beginning I would not shop with literary agents or publishing houses, I utterly failed myself in not treating my book, All That I Need, or Live Like a Dog With Its Head Out the [...]
I wrote my first novel, Queer Greer, in 2007. The arduous process of querying literary agents and publishers started the following year. Several dozen rejection letters later, I was not dissuaded from my belief that I had a publishable piece of work – only that, perhaps, the traditional publishing route was not the best way [...]
With a publisher, fame and fortune would certainly follow. Right? The idea for Found It: A Field Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs came to me in the night. Literally. At 2 AM, I raced to a lined yellow pad and each of the 51 chapters fell out of my head and onto the paper. Just like [...]
The feeling took hold in slow small increments. It was inexplicable. Unfamiliar. An odd combination of melancholy and listlessness, a howl released into the night sky except echoing inward. My debut novel had been released in August and the excitement I felt at its release was euphoric. I was so lucky to be published and [...]
You’ve probably heard of THE glass ceiling. There is another glass ceiling that everyone encounters that has nothing to do with gender; it’s a glass ceiling of negative beliefs. I dreamed about my writing career since childhood and strived toward being a career novelist. I had “big ideas.” But even while writing and working toward this [...]
Author Aine Greaney has shared her fun post on ways to love a writer for Valentine’s Day. 1. Forgive our occasional social gaffes, like when we gaze off mid-dinner and mid-sentence to let that bistro meal grow cold. We’re not ignoring you. Honest. We’re writing. Or eavesdropping. Same thing. 2. When we’re doing a reading or speaking on a [...]
Chick lit covers wearing on you? Glossy images of impossibly long legs and microscopic pink dresses? If the shopping mall and the salon are too confining, enjoy kicking a little fictional butt. Little America Diane Simmons 115 pp. trade paperback The Ohio State University Press, 2011 In Little America, which won The Ohio State University [...]
I was never meant to be a writer. Or so I believed until… After virtually forty years of training and practising the art of sculpture, my life took a surprising new course. It is said that a Shaman must endure some physical calamity – a fall from a high rock face, breaking every bone in [...]
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