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.
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 […]
Lessons I learned from writing “A Piece of Peace”
Lessons I learned from writing “A Piece of Peace” Many of you might know that Modern History Press very recently published my latest book, “A Piece of Peace.” A Piece of Peace is an autobiographical account of one unique woman’s struggle with near-fatal disease. It is a rejection of discrimination and exploitation, of women in particular. It is […]
Selective Writer’s Block: When Some Things Are Better Left Unwritten
Darkness is oppressive. Silence echoes what I do not want to hear. Night is a curse that keeps on coming back. Night is the green screen onto which everything is projected, what I do not want to see nor feel, my anxieties, my fears and pains. The sunrise ushers the relief of light, the glow […]
Writing, Yoga, and the Real You By Pamela Seelig
Writing, Yoga, and the Real You By Pamela Seelig I remember the moment I decided to write Threads of Yoga. I was in a bookstore searching for a book that would help me bring deeper yogic teachings into my classes. As a yoga teacher, I loved the physical aspect of the practice, but it was […]
Writing a Novel with My Sister by Ambreen Hameed
Writing a Novel with My Sister by Ambreen Hameed Once my sister and I decided we wanted to co-author a novel about a sibling relationship, one of the tasks allocated to me was to research how sisterhood expresses itself across the animal kingdom. The agreed plan was that I would write the older sister Sufya, […]
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