Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
Dutch by birth and serial emigrant, Barbara currently lives with her husband and daughter in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain, as basic and simple as can be. W Barbara's website.
On Writing Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together
As a kid I knew I was queer. By the time I was in middle school I’d had my first intense crush on a girl—one of my best friends—though I didn’t realize at the time it was a crush, because no one had ever told me that a girl could like another girl like that. […]
The Art of Edutainment: The Process of Blending, & Balancing Memoir Writing with Wellness
By Jane Enright “ Sometimes it’s the smallest decision that can change your life forever” —-Keri Russell Keri Russell once said, “sometimes it’s the smallest decision that can change your life forever.” For me, it was a decision to try my hand at writing a book, which became three books in three years and began […]
On Writing: How to Make a Kernel Pop
How to Make a Kernel Pop By Amy Q. Barker The other day I decided to make popcorn on the stovetop. Remember when we used to do this with Jiffy Pop? Well, I didn’t have one of those, but I did have a pan, vegetable oil, and popcorn kernels. I loaded the bottom of the […]
Words and the French of It All
By Nan Reinhardt One day, my friend and fellow writer Liz Flaherty and I were talking about words we hate to see in books We both had a list, of course, because writers are an opinionated lot, and of course we know what’s best in any novel. Some of the words we listed? Moist. Quip. Adorable. […]
An Unconventional Path to Writing, by Lenore Borja
An Unconventional Path to Writing, by Lenore Borja I moved to New York City at the age of twenty to attend The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA). I was going to be an actress—not just any actress, a famous one. I say this because there is an enormous distinction between the two. A working […]
Frankenstein Made Me Do It: On Writing Weird Girls
Frankenstein Made Me Do It: On Writing Weird Girls When I first read Frankenstein, I was thrilled by this well-read, well-intentioned poetic monster, creature of the sublime who, because he’s misunderstood, becomes monstrous. Most of all, I was fascinated by the way he was created: how he was crafted from various corpses, heterogeneous as anything. […]
Katie Sise: Writing Process
I love reading about other writers’ writing processes, and I’m always in awe of writers who outline every book and know each plot point before they start writing. I definitely don’t do that! I write like I’m watching a movie: I have a general sense of where characters should go next, but when I throw […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Fatima R. Henson Interviews Ayanna Grace
Authors Interviewing Characters: Fatima R. Henson Interviews Ayanna Grace LOVE IN THE AGE OF DRAGONS Two years ago, a wormhole opened and ushered vicious dragons into the world. The dragons burned Earth’s cities to the ground and sent its inhabitants scattering for cover; and since then, Ayanna Grace, a seventeen-year-old Black girl, has been scratching […]
Writing All Men Glad and Wise
Laura C. Stevenson “Novel writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s needs.” J. L. Carr, Foreword to A Month in the Country. The things lying around in my memory when I first considered writing a mystery formed an unlikely mix. […]
Writing Empathy Series Part Two: Empathy For Your CHARACTER
WRITING EMPATHY SERIES: PART TWO Read part one HERE Empathy for your CHARACTER I have a bunch of best friends. Evangeline, Lyra, Mac, Calliope, Fauna. They happen to be protagonists in my novels. I love them! They’re full of life and loss, like most of us. And, like the real people in my life, I […]
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