Author Archive: Barbara Claypole White
Finding Inspiration in Failure By Barbara Claypole White
In my second novel, THE IN-BETWEEN HOUR, my protagonist is a celebrity author on the cusp of a career crash and burn. The hero of his best-selling series, Agent Dodds, is dangling from a helicopter, and all Will can think is, “Let go, dude. Just let go.” Unlike Will, I’m not one of the big […]
When Abandoning Your Novel Makes Sense
I have five novels in print, one in the drawer, and last month I abandoned my latest manuscript after a year. While my self-esteem is in free fall, I’m not second-guessing my decision. That manuscript needed to die. Abandoning it was easy, a quiet moment of truth born from an epiphany: I’d woven together two […]
Let Writing Be the Cure
Writing is my passion, my therapy, and the way I process the world. Even as a child, I lived in my own headspace with stories that allowed me to imagine a bright future with alternating happy endings—depending on whether I wanted to marry Donny Osmond or become the next Charlotte Bronte. After my young son […]
Creating Characters with Invisible Disabilities
They’re all around us—people with invisible disabilities. Maybe you’re one of them; maybe your doctor or your best friend or your mother struggles with clinical depression. Maybe your son, like mine, battles obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Real people live, work, and love through mental illness. So why, when we talk about characters with invisible disabilities, do […]
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