Category: How To and Tips
Tips On Writing Historical Fiction
I’ve been teaching creative writing for years, but continue to learn things I didn’t know about writing both from my students’ work and from my own writing experiences. This year saw the publication of my first novel, The Strange Adventures of H; it was also my first attempt at historical fiction and once again I […]
Personal Growth Happens When You’re Not Expecting It
It was a cool November morning as I sat quietly in my wingback chair, sipping my hot tea and praying for guidance and grace. My heart was breaking as I thought of my friend Isse, a mother of three children in her early forties, and her shocking news: stage IV colon cancer diagnosis. My eyes […]
Overcoming Pandemic Procrastination: Complete Your Book in a Year
by Hazel Edwards During the Pandemic, people are isolating, without work. But if you are healthy, you can use this surreal opportunity to work on completing your book. Decluttering memorabilia, especially photos and records often uncovers significant experiences which need recording. The Pandemic will end, but writing your book in this period can give a […]
An Unforeseen Reward of Setting Your Writing Aside
How many times have you heard that you shouldn’t send an email written in the heat of the moment? You should wait at least a few hours, and maybe even sleep on it. After all, the reasoning goes, things will look different in the morning, as though sleeping somehow confers upon you a rational world […]
Tools Of The Trade And Other Delights
Tools of the Trade and other Delights Some writers have virtual and literal filing cabinets full of story ideas. Sadly, I’m not one of those writers. I consider myself a serial monogamist. I give myself to one story at a time. No matter how many novels I’ve written, in between I spend/waste time fretting that […]
How Writing And Acting Overlaps
A few years ago, I walked to the first day of rehearsal for a play. I had not recognised the building from the address, but as I got closer the sense of place was overwhelming. The church rooms near the back of Highbury Corner used to house the nursery school I attended when I was […]
Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia
Susan E. Lindsey Many years ago, I stumbled across a few lines that would evolve into my book, Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia. I read that Ben Major, a Kentucky slave owner, had freed his enslaved people who then sailed to Liberia. He corresponded with them […]
Do You Have The Courage To Put Your Life On Paper?
Courage is Fear Walking. I was in Italy with my son Francis in 2002. He was 16 at the time and in private school. From first grade through the twelfth grade the students were taught Latin. It’s one of those subjects that can help you in a spelling bee but otherwise not useful in daily […]
My First Pub Date: Hand-Wringing and Epiphanies by Kristen Rademacher
In the weeks before the release of my memoir, I took to my bed. Yes, I know how dramatic and affected I sound, almost as bad as if reporting an attack of the vapors. But truthfully and for a brief stint, my rational, even-keeled self left the room, leaving behind a puny me who climbed […]
Guns Under The Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary
The debut of my memoir, Guns Under the Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary, (Odyssey Books/AU), has been moved back from June 1 to September 1, 2020, because the bookstores where launch events were scheduled have had to close due to the pandemic. Disappointing, but given all that’s happening, it’s a small thing. Still, I’d […]
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