Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Pantry Skills- What Baking Has In Common With Writing
Years ago, in my heady youth, I reconnected with a guy I’d worked with on the student newspaper. We went away for a weekend. In those pre-airbnb days, it must have been a rented house, or maybe a borrowed one, but in any case, it had minimal facilities. When we arrived, after dark, miles from […]
Finding Balance
I’ve studied ballet since I was five. Even with taking a decade hiatus during college and just after, it’s still a lot of years. In my mid-forties, at least once a week I practice my pliés and pirouettes. My passé and my relevés. Yet I am known to fall over while putting on my sock […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Lauren Gershell
Lauren Gershell interviews Tatum Ferris, a spin teacher new to New York City and a character in her novel, THAT’S WHAT FRENEMIES ARE FOR. LG: Thank you for being here and agreeing to talk to me. TF: Oh, I am so so excited and grateful to be here. This is so cool and fun! Honestly, […]
What If I Can’t Write Anymore?
While shepherding a new book through a launch, I experience what can only be described as separation anxiety from writing, but then, when it’s time to get back to it, the all too familiar crash of confidence and nagging question re-emerges. What if I can’t write anymore? I’m told this fear is not uncommon with […]
The Unlikely Gift Of Breast Cancer
Four years ago, I was preparing to turn 50, anxious but confidently optimistic I would turn the page to life’s next chapter and finally slow down. Relax. Stop whining and gradually embrace middle age. Then, I abruptly got “the call.” My primary care doctor’s nurse told me I had late Stage III breast cancer. For […]
Writing The Long Game
When I was twelve years old I read Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a novel about the internal world of a girl navigating the complicated relationships of her family, a girl who believed “The world was hers for the reading.” Francie’s story touched me deeply and for the first time I related to […]
Writing Innamorata
After a certain birthday, I was feeling extra appreciative of my life, realizing I was in a very happy place and couldn’t ask for anything more. I began to reflect a bit, thinking about all the roads that led to getting here. So much of the journey wasn’t pretty; many hurdles and stumbling blocks presented […]
Writing the Western Romance: a Short Tutorial with Some Methodology
Since I was a young girl, I had a fascination with Westerns and Native American cultures. When I was about five years-old my father took me to Jones Beach in the summer. There was a teepee set up with a beautiful Indian girl with long black braids in a white buckskin beaded and fringed dress. […]
AND THEN SHE SAID…I’M NOT ENOUGH
This may be a cliché, but clichés come from somewhere…usually reality. A male individual contributor was promoted to manager, even though he wasn’t entirely ready for the position. Let’s call him Scott. Scott is being promoted because the hiring manager believes he has potential. Remember, “men are often promoted based on their potential to be […]
Why Write about Trauma? By Lisa Braver Moss
I have a nice life. I’m blessed with wonderful work, I’m in good health, I’m comfortable, I’ve been married for 36 years, and I have two delightful grown sons. Besides, I’m a positive person. I don’t like to focus on misery for its own sake. So why would I want to write about my violent, […]
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