Category: Contemporary Women Writers
PART II Shooting the Movie, and the Effect on my Career
PART II Shooting the Movie, and the Effect on my Career (Read PART I HERE) The most important effect on my career was what I learned from the process. The next was the WOW factor. On the set in New Orleans, I recognized many of the actors from movies and TV programs and watched them […]
Cooking And Writing
I’m at one of those spots in my book where I’ve made a wrong turn somewhere, and I don’t quite know what the mistake is. Maybe a character did something wrong. Maybe a scene has veered off-track. Maybe a backstory bit that’s not going to work with the emerging story. Something. And until I figure […]
Reinventing Yourself When Your Career Crumbles
Most industries have their ups and downs. You’re getting into the swing of your job at the bank, you’ve just been promoted, and an economic shift means they close your branch and if you’re lucky, you have to add an hour to your daily commute. If you’re not lucky, you have no job left. But […]
How Training In Artistic Disciplines Is Good For Business
How training in artistic disciplines is good for business contrary to popular belief By Sharon Rowe, author of The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don’t Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living and founder of Eco-Bags Products Writing is like acting is like entrepreneurship. It’s an art, a discipline and, if you choose, […]
On (Re)Writing Real-Life Tragedy
On (re)writing real-life tragedy Every author who comes out with a new book gets asked, “What was your inspiration for writing this story?” For Three Days Missing, it was two things that happened all at once. The first was an idea that woke me up in the middle of the night. A child goes missing […]
How to Treat Writing Like a Business
For a moment, think of yourself as a business. That’s the theme in my second book, The Business of Being: Soul Purpose In and Out of the Workplace. And so it is with wordsmithing. How do you approach your writing? Some writers treat their writing as a hobby—a story here, a column there, with a […]
Why And How I Write Novels About Tough Subjects
I’m not sure when my fascination with the resiliency of the human spirit and the will to survive began, but it shows in the topics I choose for my novels. Maybe it was during my childhood trips to visit my grandparents in Germany, while listening to their stories about devastating poverty and living through WWII—how […]
On Belonging And Fitting In
THE KITTY COMMITTEE is a story about belonging and the lengths people will go to in order to fit in. “Ah, there you go,” says a character in the story. “Belonging is one of the most fundamental human drives—even more than procreating. It ranks just below hunger.” Some might argue that point, but I would […]
Writing About Synaesthesia and Face Blindness: Bee Larkham’s Murder
I FIRST came across synaesthesia – which is at the heart of my novel, The Colour of Bee Larkham’s murder – during my work as a freelance education journalist. Researchers at Edinburgh University had carried out the first ever study into the prevalence in childhood of the condition that causes a ‘merging of the senses’. […]
From Wildlife Vet to Writer
When I was small I wanted to be an author. From the time I could hold a pen and form sentences, I knew writing was for me. By age eight, I was creating novels remarkably similar to Elyne Mitchell’s Silver Brumby series. Then, at a family gathering when I was twelve, everything changed. A brusque […]
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