Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Hacking Your Creative Flow: How Tracking Your Word Count Can Make You a Better Writer
By Nicole Bross As a writer, there’s an easy way to increase your productivity that you may not have considered: tracking your daily word counts. Whether you’re a freewheeling pantser who lets your story develop as you write or a hard-and-fast outliner who plans every chapter and scene before you write a word, taking a […]
My Mother Made Me Do It : Why I Write
“My Mother made me do it” and that’s how Gonepausal got started. Out of the blue she got the idea that I should write a “Dear Oprah” diary because she thinks I’m funny. I believe Oprah was on a diary kick at the time. “Mom that is crazy,” I would exclaim. Then it didn’t seem […]
Writing About Your Mom Without Guilt
by Andrea Simon In the 1960s, there was a famous television commercial for Anacin pain reliever that featured an aproned female stirring a liquid-filled pot at the stovetop. After a hovering older woman suggested adding a little salt from a shaker (that she happened to have handy), the younger one screamed, “Mother, PLEASE, I’d rather […]
Publishing News Kismet
In November, I had the amazing opportunity to attend the WriterUnboxed Unconference in Salem Massachusetts, as well as the privilege of sharing space with 120 other highly motivated and highly talented writers and authors. It was my third time to attend and I’m hoping to rack up a fourth in 2021. If you’re not familiar […]
I Write Crime Fiction to Tell the Truth
I Write Crime Fiction to Tell the Truth May Day, my first published mystery, released March 8, 2006. It took me another ten years to reveal to the world via a TEDx Talk that I’d written it as a response to my husband’s suicide. In the decade between May Day’s publication and my TEDx, when […]
Five Things I’ve Learned From My Social Media Cleanse
By Nicole Meier Last September during the launch of my third novel, I found myself hosting three Facebook pages, a Twitter feed, an author newsletter, and an Instagram account. Thanks to an amazing publicist and a passionate community of #bookstagrammers, news of my release traveled fast and I soon found myself engaged in bookish conversations […]
How Storytelling Will Evolve in The Future
The art of storytelling is always evolving. There may be essential ingredients that are non-negotiable, such as having a start, beginning and end, and usually a cast of characters, but within that structure are a myriad number of possibilities to frame the story. And then the way stories are delivered is changing all the time […]
On Revision: Reframing the House, Painting, and Applying the Finishing Touches
by Jill Caugherty Over ten years ago, in 2008, I began writing my historical novel, WALTZ IN SWING TIME. I had no firm plans other than to base the story loosely on my grandmother’s life and learn from my mistakes with an earlier shelved autobiographical manuscript. Little did I realize that the novel would morph […]
Kat Gordon: On Writing
When I first read about Alice de Janzé I was looking for a way into my novel. I’d recently come back from travelling and working in East Africa, and I knew I wanted to write about it. I wanted to write about a sun that grew so hot that we’d rise at 5am to start […]
A Gift For You — Holidays For Writers
Where are you in your writing life? Looking for a good idea? Slogging through that first draft? In the glory of revisions? Here’s the gift. You have already gotten the holiday present you always wanted. Remember when that idea came to you? The seductive, encircling beginning of the possibility that you, just like you always […]
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