Category: How To and Tips
Rewriting the Most Important Story of All: The Story of You
By Darcy Eikenberg When someone says, “Let me tell you a story,” what do you do? If you’re like most of us, you pause, lean in, and prepare to listen. Stories are an essential part of any country, company, or culture, and they’re part of you and me, too. In corporate environments like the ones […]
How Much of Your Book is Based on Real Life?
If you have written a novel and gone out into public to speak about it, I am willing to bet money that someone has asked you that question. I have found that many readers assume that authors, especially those of contemporary, realistic novels, almost always write stories based on their personal experiences, as if we […]
Unstuck
This blog series, Unstuck, explores some of the ways fiction writers find themselves stuck, and offers tips from successful writers for getting unstuck. Unstuck is a six-month series published the first Monday of the month. As a young child, much to my parents’ dismay, I loved to write on wallpaper. I tried to write in […]
Be Your Own Medical Intuitive by Tina Zion
Be Your Own Medical Intuitive by Tina Zion I must begin by telling you a truth. I really struggled to consider myself a writer, even after writing five books, and two of them 1st place gold award winners. Have you ever had the same deep fears or worries? Do you sometimes ask yourself this question, […]
Readers – Should Novelists Protect Them?
Someone in the publishing trade said to me, “A good writer cannot protect their readers or their characters.” At the time, I was working on the outline for the story that became Then a Wind Blew – published by Weaver Press (Zimbabwe) and told by three women caught up in the final brutal years of […]
On the Path to Writing Nirvana: Catherine Gentile
Catherine Gentile Long before I understood that letters had the power to form words that captured concepts that can be documented in black and white and all sorts of fonts, I’d created skits, puppet shows, and plays, stories hatched out of my childhood imagination, rendered orally, and later, jotted in fat-penciled, wobbly words. Those tendencies […]
Describing What You Can’t Imagine
Describing What You Can’t Imagine by Julia Stone Think of a purple zebra. Did you visualise a zebra? If so, you can no doubt change the colours around, making it shades of purple, or purple with black stripes, or purple and white? Or did you think about how it might look but not visualise an […]
Lessons I learned from writing “A Piece of Peace”
Lessons I learned from writing “A Piece of Peace” Many of you might know that Modern History Press very recently published my latest book, “A Piece of Peace.” A Piece of Peace is an autobiographical account of one unique woman’s struggle with near-fatal disease. It is a rejection of discrimination and exploitation, of women in particular. It is […]
Writing, Yoga, and the Real You By Pamela Seelig
Writing, Yoga, and the Real You By Pamela Seelig I remember the moment I decided to write Threads of Yoga. I was in a bookstore searching for a book that would help me bring deeper yogic teachings into my classes. As a yoga teacher, I loved the physical aspect of the practice, but it was […]
Writing a Novel with My Sister by Ambreen Hameed
Writing a Novel with My Sister by Ambreen Hameed Once my sister and I decided we wanted to co-author a novel about a sibling relationship, one of the tasks allocated to me was to research how sisterhood expresses itself across the animal kingdom. The agreed plan was that I would write the older sister Sufya, […]
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