Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Passion/Obsession: A Metaphor for Writing?
Passion/Obsession: A Metaphor for Writing? T.M. Dunn I often tell my students, “If you’re not passionate about your story, don’t write it.” This doesn’t mean at 2 AM, on umpteenth revision, you give up. In the case of the late night, early morning, writer’s blues, don’t give up, go to bed. As any Law and […]
Jumping Through Social Media Hoops (and Why I’d Rather Not)
Jumping Through Social Media Hoops (and Why I’d Rather Not) On the day that I’m writing this article, the final copies of my third novel arrived at my front door. Or, more accurately I suppose I should say at my parents’ front door (I live in an apartment building, so to avoid the possibility that […]
Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book
Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book by Laura Whitfield I participated in my first literary festival last weekend as part of a panel about finding fun and taking risks. During the event the moderator asked, “What was fun about writing your book?” “I can’t say that writing my book was fun,” I […]
The Alchemy of Fiction
The alchemy of writing fiction. By Victoria Costello Joan Didion said we tell ourselves stories in order to live. I wonder if we also change our stories in order to heal. It was my go-to trauma. Seven-year-old me finding my father passed out drunk on the floor of our flooding basement, with an empty booze […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kathryn Crawley
Walking on Fire is a loss-of-innocence, coming-of-age love story set in Greece in 1974, following the fall of the seven-year Greek dictatorship. Kate is dropped into a boiling cauldron of anti-Americanism as she has been hired as a speech pathologist in a center for Greek cerebral palsied children. She falls in love with the Greek […]
My Writing Journey by KD Sherrinford
KD Sherrinford- My writing journey. A voracious reader from an early age. I became fascinated by the works of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I read the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon by the time I was 13. I was a shy, introverted child; always found in the library with my head in a […]
Compassionate Caregiving and Writing By Suzanne Marriott
Compassionate Caregiving and Writing By Suzanne Marriott Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries, without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama XIV I remember the moment I realized I was going to be my husband’s caregiver forever. I knew Michael had multiple sclerosis, and I knew this would be a progressive disease. Yet, knowing something […]
Writing The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy—A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
The genesis for my new book, The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy—A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry came from listening to my father’s epic stories of his childhood in Austin, Minnesota. No snowstorm out there was less than five feet deep. The Cedar River which ran by his […]
How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free
How Self-Kindness Set My Creativity Free by Martha Engber I never knew the crippling burden of being unkind to myself until two years ago when I was 56. I’d just completed my forthcoming memoir, Bliss Road, about being the non-autistic daughter of an undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder dad. I’d spent the previous eight years wading […]
My Pathway to Self-Publishing by Marisa Jones
My Pathway to Self-Publishing by Marisa Jones It’s hard to believe I’m a published author. This week, my debut historical novel, A Dangerous Land, has been released to the world. What a surreal feeling. Something I never thought would come to pass. It certainly wasn’t an easy road to get here. For two years I […]
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