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.
Coming Home to the Body: The Inspiration Behind Dance of Oneness
By Banafsheh Sayyad For much of my life, dance has been the language through which I understand the world. Long before I had the words to articulate my philosophy of embodiment, my body was already speaking—through movement, rhythm, and breath. I began dancing as a child, not yet realizing that this form of expression would […]
How My Memoir Helped Me Reclaim My Narrative
I love clues. I love confidences. I love the clandestine. In fact, I’ve devoted much of my professional life to unraveling secrets. First, as a litigation paralegal. Then as a market analyst. Later, as a business journalist. And, most recently, as a counselor on skid row. The trouble was I’d never cracked the code of […]
Such A Pretty Picture: Turning Memoir Into Mission
By Andrea Leeb To fully explain how I turned my memoir, Such A Pretty Picture into a mission, I need to take you back in time. I was only four-and-a-half the first time my father molested me. He was giving me a bath, and although I was young, I knew there was something strange about […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma Grey interviews Audrey Sullivan from START AT THE END
Start at the End This is a love story . . . but not the one you’re expecting. Audrey Sullivan and Fraser Miller tumble into a romance for the ages. After an unlikely start, they fall deeply in love and dream of the life they’ll build together—until one tragic moment upends everything. Facing the unimaginable […]
An Accidental Memoirist
By Willa Goodfellow People ask, “What inspired you to write a memoir?” You’d think after two memoirs, I would have an answer. But there was no moment of inspiration. I am an accidental memoirist. I never sat down to write a book. They both just happened. In January 2005 on my way into the doctor’s office, […]
Writing “Clever Girl Millionaire”: What It Really Takes to Write a Book That Matters
By Bola Sokunbi, Author and founder of Clever Girl Finance —— I’ve written six books. You’d think by now I’d have a writing system so polished it practically runs itself. And in some ways, I do. I understand deadlines. I understand establishing structure with my writing. And I know what having a finished manuscript feels […]
Holding Both: Grieving Your Losses While the World Grieves Too
By Shelby Forsythia At least once a month, it happens. I’m sitting with a group of grieving people during one of my weekly support calls, speaking into the mic while messages begin to appear in the chat. Someone types what many others are feeling but haven’t found the words to say: “I don’t know how […]
Plots and Paper; Scissors and Scenes… by Susan Kleinman
By Susan Kleinman “So,” the interviewer asks me, “what do you do when you’re not writing?” The first three answers that come to mind—I doomscroll, I cook dinner, I complain about having to cook dinner—don’t reflect terribly well on me, so I jump down to item #4 on the list and tell her that I […]
How to Create Atmosphere in a Historical Novel and Keep the Details Authentic
By A.A. Sekhon When writing any work of fiction, it is important to create atmosphere so that readers can be immersed in the story. Writing historical fiction presents its own unique challenges in this regard, because the details one uses to create this atmosphere need to be historically accurate. This is essential in order to […]
Because My Fingers Tingle
by Grace Sammon A few weeks ago, I read an essay by a successful novelist who announced she was stepping away from writing. Not pausing. Not regrouping. Stepping away. Her reasoning was thoughtful and honest. She wrote eloquently, as novelists do, about the work of writing a novel, followed by the equally exhausting labor of […]
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