Category: Contemporary Women Writers
Nicola Matthews – My Writing Inspiration
Nicola Matthews – My Writing Inspiration I live on a peninsular which has a very distinctive feel with its ragged inlets, silken mudflats and wide open skies. My protagonist, Kitty, walked this same landscape three hundred years earlier. Although it would have changed somewhat, it is the same ground, the same rhythm of tides that […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carolyn Clarke
Carolyn Clarke, award winning author, interviews Allison Montgomery, the protagonist of her debut novel And Then There’s Margaret. And Then There’s Margaret is a story about a tired, worn-out mid-lifer, Allison Montgomery, who feels lost inside the walls of her own identity, both at home and at work. When her father-in-law, someone she adores and cherishes, […]
Fire and Ice: An Ode to Setting
Fire and Ice: An Ode to Setting by Meghan Holloway I fell in love the first time. I was in my late teens, and I had never before experienced that bitterness of the wind, those depths of snow, or that sheer wildness of a landscape. Yellowstone in the unrelenting grips of winter captured my heart […]
A Journey Towards Change
No Stars in the Sky, by Martha Bátiz A journey towards change No Stars in the Sky features 19 stories that touch upon themes and subjects that are very close to my heart, that keep me up at night and that, more often than not, are very present in our everyday news. Like so many […]
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) […]
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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 […]
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