Category: Contemporary Women Writers
The Power of Legacy Journaling
The Power of Legacy Journaling Merle R. Saferstein The wisdom that comes with living is a gift to share. Unlike journaling we do for ourselves, legacy journaling is written for the benefit of others. A legacy journal can be a record of one’s spiritual values, life lessons, messages from the heart, reflections, and more. Legacy […]
Why Writing Can Save Lives
Inspired by the many teachers who mentored and encouraged me during my own school years, I became an educator and enjoyed a rewarding fifty-year career, teaching upper elementary school students as well as preparing future teachers in my role as a college professor. Fifty years sped by, as I was propelled by a mission: to […]
My Writing Craft by Ellie Wood, author of The Wildwater Women
My Writing Craft by Ellie Wood, author of The Wildwater Women (HarperNorth, 28 April 2022) At its heart, The Wildwater Women is a love song to the Lake District, and I set about crafting it with a love-letter level of care. The writing process was an intense, nine-month relationship, with the book ever-present in my […]
Writing A Book About Sleep, Grief and Dreams: Answers in the Dark
I’m going to start by keeping it real. Upfront, my first book took me 10 years to write. Not because I’m lazy, or because I wasn’t motivated. I explain at the beginning of Answers in the Dark that it was mainly because, well…science. Key message #1: Know your audience I felt a huge (albeit unrealistic) […]
![COMEDY = [TRAGEDY + TIME + (WINE – ANGER)] ÷ ABSURDITY](http://booksbywomen.org/wp-content/uploads/013_F-scaled-e1614740689456-768x523-1-180x123.jpg "COMEDY = [TRAGEDY + TIME + (WINE – ANGER)] ÷ ABSURDITY")
COMEDY = [TRAGEDY + TIME + (WINE – ANGER)] ÷ ABSURDITY
COMEDY = [TRAGEDY + TIME + (WINE – ANGER)] ÷ ABSURDITY Comedy equals tragedy plus time. It’s a phrase that’s been attributed to Mark Twain, Lenny Bruce, Mike Birbiglia, and Steve Allen – but it doesn’t really matter who legitimately said it. It was someone who is or was funny, someone who’s funnier than me. […]
FIVE SUMMER READS FOR WRITERS By Kimberly Garrett Brown
FIVE SUMMER READS FOR WRITERS By Kimberly Garrett Brown Henry James said it best when he wrote: “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” To me the best summer afternoons are spent with a good book. That’s why I plan my summer reading like […]
Writing and Researching The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus
I’m the writer who took the sex out of the story of Catherine the Great. Actually, that’s not strictly true: I may be British, but I’m not that prim. What I really wanted to do when writing my book The Empress and the English Doctor is ditch the false sexual smears trotted out (ha!) for […]
Representation in Writing – Author’s Dilemma, Author’s Responsibility
Representation in writing – author’s dilemma, author’s responsibility There is maybe no hotter topic right now for writers than the question of representation. Writers everywhere are debating whether writing characters out of one’s own ethnicity or gender might be considered wrong. The answer isn’t so simple. My latest novel, The Fervor (GP Putnam’s Sons) marks […]
Inspiration Behind DANGER TO OTHERS
I always thought I would become a therapist, helping people like me—late bloomers with difficult relationships. Instead, I spent my career working with people experiencing serious mental illness. I have a knack for forming relationships with young men whose voices tell them to assault, old women kicked out of nursing homes, and overwhelmed youth who […]
The Survivors Who Inspired my Debut Novel
The Survivors Who Inspired my Debut Novel By: Nora Murphy While attending law school, I participated in two clinics through which I studied the issues facing survivors of intimate partner violence—also referred to domestic abuse or domestic violence. After graduating, I worked as a judicial law clerk for two years, before entering private practice—experiences which […]
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