Category: On Writing
Rendering Judgments Without Judging: On Healing Others and Self by Sarah Kim, Th.D.
Rendering Judgments Without Judging: On Healing Others and Self Sarah Kim, Th.D. In a nation built by immigrants such as America, more people live between cultures while everyone is exposed to ethnic diversity. Navigating through a culturally diverse society may be stimulating but also challenging, especially if one must serve as a cultural mediator. As […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kelley McNeil, author of Mayluna
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kelley McNeil, author of Mayluna “McNeil’s latest is a dreamy, melancholy look back at young love…Fans of wistful love stories and intellectual music retrospectives will appreciate the astronomical metaphors throughout, intertwining music, math, and the planets into this complicated love story.” —Booklist In MAYLUNA, the story is revealed between a legendary band, […]
Writing Leave Everything You Know Behind By Ginny Fite
Writing Leave Everything You Know Behind By Ginny Fite Long before I begin to write a novel, well before I know what I’m writing, thoughts and questions arrive unbidden at all times of the day. If I’m paying attention, I’ll write them down. Thus, my desk is littered with yellow stickies and pads with scribbled […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Dana Hawkins
NOT IN THE PLAN Free-spirited coffee shop owner meets uptight coffee addict. Is an opposites-attract match brewing… or burning? Crushed under the weight of writer’s block and a looming deadline, Mack escapes from New York to Seattle. She meets Charlie, a beautiful, generous, nearly bankrupt coffee shop owner recovering from heartbreak. For the first time, […]
Books and Brews — Where Beer and Literature Meet!
Books and Brews — where beer and literature meet! A beer hater doing a podcast about beer…well, life is full of interesting twists! That’s what makes it fun! I hate beer—well, most beer. My first taste of beer was at a frat party during my freshman year at college. I couldn’t understand how anyone could […]
BOTH HANDS
BOTH HANDS For a long time, I walked around saying, I can’t find my way back. At first, it was a voice in my head, but then it became my response to anyone who asked, how is your writing going? The more I answered, I can’t find my way back, the more I clung to […]
A Tale of Two Dorothys and How They Influenced Me by Barbara Lien-Cooper
A Tale of Two Dorothys and How They Influenced Me by Barbara Lien-Cooper As a writer of urban/dark fantasy stories (Gun Street Girl, Hungry Ghosts (a graphic novel and also a related-but-not-the-same prose novel by the same name, The Talking Cure, and Song to the Siren), I had originally planned to write this essay about obscure female fantasy/horror […]
The Importance of Having a Written Family History
The Importance of Having a Written Family History Deborah Driggs Keeping a record of my family history has become an obsession for me after finding my grandfather’s manuscript for a novel based on his life. Discovering nuances about him that I previously knew nothing about made me realize that writing down our experiences is in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Liz Webb
THE SAVED by Liz Webb She thought his death would destroy her … but his return was far worse. Nancy and Calder have moved from London to an isolated slate island, off the west coast of Scotland. Nancy is focussed on their new beginning, but is increasingly unsettled by the stark island, the mysterious inhabitants […]
Tricky Territory: on Writing an Autobiographical Novel and Mother-Daughter Relations
Tricky territory: on writing an autobiographical novel and mother-daughter relations One afternoon in the northern Chinese city of Dalian, I walked out of the school gates and saw my mother’s face on a bus. It was an advertisement for an English language product–textbooks or teachers, I cannot recall–and there she was, plastered in pixels over […]
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