Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Women Need To Write About Sex
By Heather M. First, I should disclose that I am an artist and writer that has spent the last five years creating art with a purpose. And that purpose is to engage people with thoughts, ideas, and perspectives of how female identifying individuals engage in sex and sexuality. It is my personal belief that women […]
Search Heartache: Carla Malden
Raised in Los Angeles, Carla Malden began her career working in motion picture production and development before becoming a screenwriter. Along with her father, Academy Award–winning actor Karl Malden, she coauthored his critically acclaimed memoir, When Do I Start?. More recently, Malden published AfterImage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of A Charmed Life, a fiercely personal account of battling […]
How My Grandmother Inspired My Writing
Growing up, I was very close to my grandmother. Some of my earliest memories are of the Friday nights we spent at my grandparents’ home for Shabbat dinner, the Jewish sabbath. This was a weekly tradition. We lit the candles and said the prayers over the wine and challah. Our dinners consisted of a four-course […]
COMING OF AGE: A Mature Writer Adapting In The 21st Century
We’ve all been asked this question as we progress through time: What do you want to be when you grow up? No matter who asked, no matter what stage of life I was in, I always had the same answer: to be a published author. Armed with that infatuation, I never faltered or changed my […]
Consequences of Truth-Telling: Self-Censorship in Memoir
Consequences of Truth-Telling: Self-Censorship in Memoir Memoirists tell the truth. Whether it’s about abuse, the trials of parenting, sex, or marital conundrums, we tell the truth without inhibitions. At least, that’s the rule. That’s the goal. The fact that people will read your truth is a whole other concern that is most disconcerting to memoir […]
Calming My Demons: How Writing My Novel Unexpectedly Helped My Recovery
Ten years ago, I quit my job, sold the house and left the country. I was moving to France where, I decided, I would become a writer. This was despite a distinct lack of evidence that I had the skill, notwithstanding (or perhaps entirely exemplified by) the heartfelt journals, enthusiastic attempts at poetry and first […]
Need some Writing Motivation? Try Spinning. No. Really.
I’m a writer, but sometimes I trade my sweatpants for padded Lycra shorts, switch out my mug of tea for a water bottle, shed my Joan Didion seriousness and blast Pitbull in the spin room. I bark into my microphone for riders on stationary bikes to “Go! Grab it! Dig in!” I correct form and […]
What Running a Bookshop Taught Me About Writing
What Running a Bookshop Taught Me About Writing By Natalie Jenner Four years ago, I realized my lifelong dream of opening a small bookshop near the shore of Lake Ontario, in an idyllic and vibrant downtown community. For someone who had long ago given up trying to get published, yet still craved a way to […]
Seven Things I’ve Learned In My First Six Months Of Being A Full-Time Writer
I’ve been a writer for a long time. I tried to write novels on and off in my twenties, and returned to it when I discovered the joys of writing historical fiction in my forties. I was fortunate to have six historical novels published by the big 5 from 2005-2012. When my publishing career went […]
Writing While Mother
I am writing this sitting at the dining room table. Just a few yards away my two oldest kids, aged seven and four, are watching a movie in the living room. Even though the volume is down relatively low, the superhero sound effects keep distracting me; even more distracting is my son, who keeps padding […]
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