Category: Contemporary Women Writers
A WRITERLY ADVENTURE By Rachel Dacus
A WRITERLY ADVENTURE By Rachel Dacus Writers are always seeking time and space in which to create. We go to writers’ retreats to step away from our routines, but the last place I expected to gain time and inspiration was in a hospital bed. One day, while I was talking to a friend, the left […]
On Writing “Choosing Survival: How I Endured a Brutal Attack and a Lifetime of Trauma through the Power of Action, Choice, and Self-Expression.”
On Writing “Choosing Survival: How I Endured a Brutal Attack and a Lifetime of Trauma through the Power of Action, Choice, and Self-Expression.” By Lynn F Forney We all have a story to tell, for that I am certain. Mine began as a somewhat flippant comment when I would start to explain the details of […]
On Witnessing a Natural Phenomenon and Calling Myself a Writer
On Witnessing a Natural Phenomenon and Calling Myself a Writer I grew up in Mobile, Alabama, where during the summers my family swam in Mobile Bay’s latte-colored water. The bay and its watershed, now referred to by some as “North America’s Amazon,” was to me as a child as fraught with dangers as the actual […]
The Inspiration for Simply Be More
The Inspiration For Simply Be More Overnight in March 2020, all my work as a headline flautist was cancelled. For the first time in my entire career, my diary, normally packed full of wonderful concerts was completely clear. I knew this was a reset button. I could just sense that the world would never be […]
Tips for Excellent Twists
Tips for Excellent Twists As readers, we crave that jaw-dropping feeling that leaves us slightly stunned, with the book open in our lap as we process the unexpected. Wouldn’t it be great if writing twists were as easy and enjoyable as reading them? To understand what makes an effective plot twist, you have to know […]
On Writing The Girl
Since I left my corporate job in 2019 to pursue my writing dreams, a term has cropped up again and again that has always irked me when I’ve had to describe some of my short stories: the “unlikeable female character.” I know it started as a term to describe a female character who went against […]
How Conversations Inspire Writing
By Kelly Ohlert, author of To Get To The Other Side One gorgeous sunny day, I took a walk on my lunch break. Thanks to my incredibly low attention span, or rather, the low attention span of humans in general these days (thanks technology), I of course couldn’t just walk and enjoy the sunshine. I […]
On Writing Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion
How do you sum up a whole book in a few words? Your book is nearly ready to enter the world. You’ve got a title, a cover, even some endorsements. Then, something you’d almost forgotten rears its head: the jacket copy (or, as we call it in Britain, the blurb). It’s often an afterthought in […]
EDITING TIPS FROM A FREELANCE EDITOR By Libby Sternberg
EDITING TIPS FROM A FREELANCE EDITOR By Libby Sternberg For many years, I’ve been a freelance editor at a major publishing house, editing romance novels and women’s fiction books. I started as a copy editor, checking for grammar, usage, and style, but now I’m a line—or developmental—editor, which means I check manuscripts for characterization, consistency, […]
How to Start a Podcast and Magazine Without Really Trying
How to Start a Podcast and Magazine Without Really Trying Also Known As It Was the Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times By Deb Hunter During the Covid lockdown of 2020, many of us turned to the Clubhouse app. Maybe we simply wanted to hear the voices of others, share our mutual […]
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