Category: Contemporary Women Writers
One Dangerous Liberty
We who write stories are damn brave. We spin out people with whom we live in almost every moment of our lives. We create their world. They create ours. We take them places. They take us. We live with them, fuss over them, argue with them, let ourselves be surprised by them. We dive into […]
Rhythm Of Writing
I remember 1981. It was an important year for me for two reasons – I started kindergarten, and my parents ordered cable TV. Instead of being at home all day, I now joined my sister in that mysterious tan brick building that smelled of ditto ink and chalk. Instead of three local stations and PBS, […]
On Inspiration
Inspiration – there is no such thing as ‘standard’ but that’s okay Inspiration is defined as ‘the process of being mentally stimulated to do something, especially something creative’ and ‘someone or something giving you the idea to do something’; which leaves you with an extremely broad scope for where ideas can come from. This can […]
Writing And Performing A TEDX Talk
Do you dream about a TEDxTalk? Go inside the process of writing and performing a TED Talk with author Polo Tate At the time of my TEDxTALK audition, I had a birds-eye view of what I had hoped would be a majestic “idea worth spreading.” I wanted to talk about how to find true fulfilment in life—something poignant that took me an […]
Writers And Cats
Ernest Hemingway, a lifelong ailurophile (or cat fancier), wrote “one cat just leads to another,” and he knew what he was talking about. What could be a more natural companion animal for an author than a cat? Many writers and felines keep odd hours, often prefer solitude over socializing, and are known to become “testy” […]
My Raging Doubt
Sometimes, just for fun, I torture myself with existential questions like this: which personal fact contributes most to my raging self-doubt, being a writer or being a recovering Midwesterner? (I can’t even throw being a mother into the mix or my head will explode.) But here is another possibility: my penchant for over-analyzing and occasionally […]
Jumping into the Deep End
When I was an elfin five-year-old with a pixie cut, without asking permission or telling anyone, I jumped off the diving board into the deep end of a pool in Arizona. The teenage lifeguard immediately dove in and rescued me. I clearly recall feeling offended—I hadn’t needed rescuing! I’d had some lessons and I could […]
Ha, Said Writing
by Lucie Whitehouse As the mother of a six-year-old, I spend a fair amount of time these days extolling the virtues of practice (guitar, shoe-lacing) and heartily proclaiming that the more you do a thing, the easier it gets. My daughter is an enthusiastic writer and I’m grateful for many reasons, not least because I […]
Crossing Genres: A Wild Writing Path
By Kathleen Shoop, PhD Writing across genres. What does that mean? How do you do it well? Well it turns out the answer is, “It depends.” First of all, we can consider writing across genres within individual books and series. And then there’s the notion of having a multi-genre career. Let’s take a look at books […]
Creative Accounting
I never thought I would have a book published; I’m an accountant. I’m trained in a field where the phrase “creative accounting” is in most cases literally illegal. It’s only recently that I’ve been able to sit down in a coffee shop, with a blank word document in front of me, without worrying if I […]
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