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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 […]
The Long Night and the Golden Sun: Behind Saturnalia
The Long Night and the Golden Sun: Behind Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman In 2017, I attended a Halloween performance of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death at the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia’s famous exhibit of medical oddities. It felt like the end of the world, then, or at least the world as I’d […]
Crime vs. Feel-Good Fiction
Crime vs. Feel-Good Fiction “Write what you know” wasn’t a concept in my life when I was a child. I was in the Brownie Guides, about to start working on my first ever Brownie badge – the Writers’ Badge, the only one that didn’t look scarily impossible to my seven-year-old self. I had to write […]
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 […]
How the End of Roe v. Wade Convinced Me to Share My Feminist Memoir
How the end of Roe v. Wade convinced me to share my feminist memoir Fran Abrams I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir is a memoir in poetry of my life growing up during the second wave of feminism. The second wave, begun in the 1960s, focused on equal opportunities, equal jobs, and equal pay. […]
ALL WRITERS ARE SPIES: by Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop
ALL WRITERS ARE SPIES: by Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop I didn’t read Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh until I was trying to land a job as an editorial assistant in the children’s book department at Harper and Row Publishers. I read my way through every novel they’d published in the previous twenty years. Harriet was […]
Melanie Dickerson: On Writing
Writing novels is less a job than an exercise in perseverance. Don’t get me wrong, it is a job—for me at least. But unlike other occupations, no one is telling you exactly what to do or when to do it. There is a great deal of self-motivation involved, of not giving up when the inevitable […]
Back to the beginning by Heloisa Prieto
Back to the beginning Heloisa Prieto Snow is silent. I was so used to the strong sounds of large tropical raindrops that I was caught by surprise when I first noticed the silent, snowflakes spreading around the family car. The year was 1971, I was 16 years old and had just arrived in Constantine, Michigan, […]
A Publishing Journey: 10 Years, 3 Agents, 7 Manuscripts
A Publishing Journey: 10 Years, 3 Agents, 7 Manuscripts By Cara Reinard A while back, authors were asked on Twitter to share the arduous process of becoming traditionally published with three numbers: years, agents, and manuscripts. There aren’t any authors I can recall who had “ones” across the board, and there’s a reason for that. […]
The Making of The Silent Count, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Making of The Silent Count, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb It is a truth universally acknowledged by the how-to-write-a-novel industrial complex that a thriller in want of a good plot must be in possession of a ticking time bomb. I learned this the hard way while trying to write […]
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