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Feeling Fraudulent: A Brown Woman Writes From a White Man’s Point of View
Feeling Fraudulent: A Brown Woman Writes From a White Man’s Point of View I’m a big fan of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski, Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher and others. I’m also a big fan of Copenhagen, my adopted city where I lived for eleven years. So, I knew […]
Wild Ride: On Creating Writers In The Wild Retreats
Wild Ride What do you get when you put a group of writers in a room together? A whole lot of story-telling. What do you get when you take those same writers out in the wild? Pure creative synergy. I spent most of my life writing solo, crafting worlds and prospecting my life for inspiration […]
The Show On The Road
The Beloved Children author Tina Jackson on how the women from Wide Open Writing are going to hit the road to bring writing where it’s needed In the late summer of 2018, I was wrestling with the manuscript that was to become my debut novel, The Beloved Children – a story of carny insiders in […]
Why My Novels are Filled with My Food Obsession and How Writing ‘Waisted’ Changed My Life
By Randy Susan Meyers I grew up in a family where food was considered the comforting evil or evil comfort—but never just comfort. Never just food. My mother—for whom dress size was the holy grail—watched every bite I took. When in a restaurant, first she’d not order what she wanted and then she’d steal bites from […]
Why I Write History
Like many history buffs, history first caught my imagination through stories. One of my favorite things to do when I was small was curl up next to my grandmother and ask her, “What did you do when you were a little girl?” From there it was a short step to reading biographies about […]
How Writing Changed My Life
Wings of a Flying Tiger is a heroic tale in which ordinary Chinese risked their lives to rescue and safeguard a downed American pilot in WWII in China. It is a work of fiction. But to me, a Chinese-American, it is also personal. My mother and grandma had lived in Nanking and escaped from the […]
When Public Speaking Goes Wrong
There has been a lot on social media lately about why women should accept invitations to public speaking events. As in all areas of society, it seems we are in the minority when it comes to standing on the soap box. A quick search on Google shows that there are many more male public speakers […]
The Possibilities are Limitless
Being an author to me is more than just getting published and hitting the bestseller list. For me, it is about reaching people through my stories, either fiction or non-fiction; knowing that somewhere, someone is touched by my words as they come to life and spark another’s imagination. The struggle for many authors to make […]
The Appeal of Flawed Characters
To effectively create fictional characters, it is necessary to be an observer. Writers study people—their physical appearance, mannerisms, speech patterns, personalities, life experiences, motivations, and resulting actions. A writer can be inspired by a particular individual, or he/she might combine aspects of several people to create one character. As book-readers and TV-and-film viewers, we crave […]
I Used to be a Writer
“How about I meet you up at the…ah…the…office at the front? You know, the place with the desk?” My husband responds quickly and kindly. “The lobby?” “Well, sure,” I respond, “but there’s another word I’m thinking of here.” We’ve danced this dance before and he knows I’m not going to drop it until the word […]
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