Category: How To and Tips
Objective Estrangement
Tools: The Power in Writing Where You Aren’t As an American author living in Geneva, I am often asked whether I am working on a novel set in Switzerland. White-peaked mountains, banking intrigue, anything chocolate. The potential is massive. Usually I say no. My latest novel manuscript contains one brief passage relating to the country […]
On Writing PERFECT ALL THE TIME
It’s ironic that as I am sitting here, writing this, that my book, about an unwanted teenage pregnancy, coincides with the ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade. Perfect All the Time was not written to debate anything – I wrote it to work out my feelings about women’s relationships. In my life, I’ve had several best […]
So You Want To Be A Writer…
As an author, I hear so many people say they want to be a writer. My first question is always: what are you writing at the moment? You’d be surprised how often I receive a blank look, or the answer “I haven’t written anything yet”. But every now and again, someone will tell me what […]
My Writing Process: Jeannée Sacken
Early on in my career as a photojournalist, I ventured into the Honduran mountains to document the life and work of a young Mayan mother. After a fruitless couple of hours, I called a break. Turning from the mother, I caught sight of her ten-year-old daughter, Suyapa, in the shadowy corner of their two-room, mud-brick […]
On Writing WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A CHAIR
I Didn’t Mean to Do It: How Finding a Home for Pain Became a Book When I began to write my memoir, a book wasn’t something that I even considered. I didn’t think about my process, nor my structure. I didn’t mean to. I just began to write. Write hard. After surviving a paralyzing car […]
Fatal Locations By Daniella Bernett
Are you a kindred spirit and passionate about discovering new places? Or merely content to be an armchair traveler? Either way, I invite you on a spine-tingling journey into the dark heart of intrigue with A Mind To Murder, the eighth book in my mystery series featuring journalist Emmeline Kirby and her jewel thief/insurance investigator […]
Writing A sky of Infinite Blue — A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
The memoir, “A Sky of Infinite Blue— A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self,” is about my journey of healing, spiritual growth, and love. The journey was not only described in the book, but also by writing it, I transformed myself spiritually along with my Buddhist pursuit. In my forming years up to early […]
Success in My Writing Career, and Otherwise: Kate Brandes
Here are some jobs I’ve had: waitress (5 years); factory worker (3 summers); potato bug mapper (1 summer); cashier, feeder of calves, tutor, agricultural advisor ( all 1 year); geologic consultant (6 years); garden designer (4 years); science director at non-profit (6 years); watershed/environmental scientist (4 years); artist (10 years and counting); adjunct professor (4 […]
My Not-So-Secret Other Life as a Dancer by Barbara Quick
The memory is imprecise, like something recollected from a dream: a jewelry box, at eye level to my toddler self. My own hands in the perfection of their childish form—long-fingered, unmarked by life—reaching toward the black lacquer lid painted with blossoms. Hinging it open to animate the tiny pink-clad ballerina who otherwise waits asleep inside. […]
WHEN ONLY A GHOST WILL DO: ON GHOSTWRITING
WHEN ONLY A GHOST WILL DO By Christina Hamlett “It must be so fascinating to be a ghostwriter,” an interviewer told me. “Do you get to go to a bunch of séances?” It took me a beat to realize she assumed I’d built a career around talking to the dead. Silly as that sounds, it […]
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