Category: How To and Tips
Writing Together
We, Charlene Ball and Libby Ware, both love to read mystery novels. We also love collecting and selling antiquarian and rare books. We exhibit at Antiquarian Book Fairs and have gotten to know book dealers, among them some interesting characters. When we decided to write a mystery together, we both wanted it to be a […]
Author Rapid Fire Questions
WWWB’s managing editor Barbara and I started chatting about an interview for Books by Women just as my family and I were heading off on a weekend camping trip. She was happy to let me come up with the format, so I decided to use the opportunity for some fun around the campfire! My hubby […]
The Ultimate Pick-Up Line: Why Your First Sentence Matters
by Katherine Fawcett Even since that one guy got tired of hunting and gathering, sat down on a rock near the fire, waved for others to gather around, cleared his throat and said the words “Once upon a time in a land far, far away…” we’ve been suckers for a good tale. And we’re either […]
Add One Mid-life Crisis To A Media Hate Narrative: The Inspiration for PRECIOUS YOU
Add one mid-life crisis to a media hate narrative: the inspiration for Precious You By Helen Monks Takhar In my twenties, I deeply resented how going for a jog involved running the gauntlet with street harassers. Before leaving my flat, I’d have to ready myself for those men who feel entitled to call at women […]
Intuitive Writing and Character Formation
Inspiration is a funny thing. Mysterious and mystical, it’s difficult to know where it comes from. And unless one writes biographical fiction, characters are inspired by something. Before I started writing books, I imagined that somehow characters formed by themselves without too much effort, as if they leapt onto the page fully formed. Even when […]
Improving Writing Productivity Amid a Pandemic
Damyanti Biswas lives in Singapore, and supports Delhi’s underprivileged women and children, volunteering with organisations who work for this cause. Her short stories have been published in magazines in the US, UK, and Asia, and she helps edit the Forge Literary Magazine. Her novel You Beneath Your Skin will be free between 7th and 11th August […]
The Seed of My Memoir in a Glass of Pinot and a Prompt By Gretchen Cherington
At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents’ well-crafted family myths while continuing to silence her own voice? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth–even the […]
How Writing My First Novel Prepared Me To Write My Debut Novel
As of today, August 4th 2020, I am a published novelist. My debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress, is a work of historical fiction about Lydia Robinson, the real older woman who had an affair with Branwell Bronte, the Bronte sisters’ brother. It was released by Atria Books. Yet every time someone congratulates me on the publication […]
Road To Publication: Julie Pennell
Road to publication: Julie Pennell When I was a little girl, I was always busy writing stories for my parents who were the type of fans who would always give me a five-star review no matter what the content (thanks, Mom and Dad!) It wasn’t until I entered a short story fiction contest for a […]
From Idea To Finished Novel: Writing Research For A Paris Secret
For most novelists the first blank page can be a terrifying prospect. How does one complete one hundred thousand words before arriving at the last magic phrase, the end? Even with a strong synopsis, something my publisher insists upon, it is still a daunting task. For me, it is a matter of really pushing myself […]
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