Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Why Coaching Helps my Writing Life
I’ve always loved the process of coaching – how quickly clients can see the benefits, how action-focused it is, and how certain results are surprising. I trained as a Life Coach fifteen years ago, and for the last few years have been working solely with writers as a writing coach and tutor. Being a life-long […]
Writing And Researching: On Wilder Seas
Nikki Marmery is the author of On Wilder Seas, a historical novel inspired by the true story of Maria, the woman who sailed on the Golden Hind during Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage in 1579. I first read about Maria in a popular history book, seven years ago. Though details about her life are scarce, she […]
The Stories That Make Us: Finding Your Voice by Virginia Kantra
I’ve been thinking a lot about retellings. What we remember about beloved classics isn’t only the original text, but how we felt the first time we fell into the story. I will always hear Huckleberry Finn read aloud in my mother’s voice from the summer shadows. The Last Unicorn is scented with dust and Lysol […]
Creating an Audible Book
A few years ago, I created an Audible book for my debut novel, Walking with Elephants. I had a few reasons to embark on that project as an author/narrator. Foremost, I thought it would be fun, and secondly it was a legacy for my grandchildren after I’ve passed—to be able to hear my voice. I undertook […]
The Longest Legs in Literature? Thirty Years to a Debut Novel
by Linda Hurcombe I cannot claim with candour that writing was my one and only childhood aspiration, and a school incident when I was six might well have discouraged a less persistent child. Miss Petrie, my first grade teacher, asked us to write a poem about our favourite animal; mine is a sharply etched memory: […]
First Person Novels – Love or Hate?
Alice Jolly looks at the risks and rewards of novels written in extraordinary first person voices. I know people who never read a novel written in the first person. I do see their point. First person novels can be like finding yourself wedged on a train next to someone who is chatty, over sharing, mendacious […]
What Success Means to a Writer
What success means to a writer by Ashley Dyer Success is easily quantifiable if it’s equated with sales and earnings. But is it right to measure writing success in those terms? Is writing success quantifiable at all? In a writing career of twenty-three years, my novels have been published in the UK, the USA and […]
Merging Message and Medium By Nina Sadowsky
By Nina Sadowsky When I sold my first book in 2015, I was cautioned against sharing my political or social opinions on social media. I was warned that being vocal about certain issues might alienate some readers. My response was a shrug. It was too late. I’d joined social media prior to my becoming a […]
Letters To Ourselves
My mother sits at the kitchen table, her hat and boots still on, her chair dragged at an awkward angle to the corner of the table so that she has to reach to write her letter. We have just returned from a shopping outing, the first time we have gone shopping together in years. She […]
Writing about Bladder Problems: it’s a Piece of Piss!
By Dr Jennifer Meyer Everybody has a book lingering inside them, right? So why did I finally decide that mine had to be born now? I invite you to the conception of Piss to Bliss: Agony. Bloodbath. Ambulance. It’s 4 am on the morning of my birthday 2018. I’m on holiday alone in Spain, sitting […]
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