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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.
A “True” Story: What Inspired My Famous Brain
“Did you really know this person?” I think many fiction writers are asked that question in one form or another when they send a piece out into the world. It’s a great compliment. It means that the reader is so invested in your main character that she wants that character to have had an actual […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tracy Shawn
Character Interview with Paloma Leary from Novel Floating Underwater by Tracy Shawn About FLOATING UNDERWATER Paloma Leary is devastated when her latest vision predicting a third miscarriage comes true. She falls into a mystifying world of increasingly bizarre phenomena, including an otherworldly connection with her mysterious neighbor, out-of-body experiences, and phantom visits from her dead […]
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, […]
Why I Don’t Have a Period (and no, this is not About Menopause)
When I tell people I’m a historical novelist, or I write historical fiction, with few exceptions they say, “Oh? What’s your period?” The assumption, I think, is that in order to write with any authority, an author has to specialize in a certain era—or at the very least, a certain place. In fact, some historical […]
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 […]
Developing a Writing Life By Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
My parents had five children in rapid succession within the space of nine years. Living in a house with so many youngsters meant unending chores and responsibility for all of us, but especially for me, the eldest. My mother expected me to help cook and clean—and adhere to the many rules of the Catholic church […]
The Short Story and Psychotherapy: A Compatible Duo
By Linda Feyder I have always been attracted to the short story, the novel’s strange little sibling. I find stories gripping, transcendent, and revealing in a way that often strikes me by surprise. Stories are like unexpected moments when you catch something fleeting that pierces your heart. As short story writer Lorrie Moore once said, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Paulette Stout
Love, Only Better centers on the intimate quest of my main character, twenty-eight-year-old Rebecca Sloane. When her ex storms out, his stinging bedroom insults linger. She begins the empowering task of connecting with her sexual self, but her magnetic connection with Kyle, a gorgeous new neighbor across the hall, complicates matters. Rebecca struggles to juggle […]
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