Category: On Writing
Christy Healy: On Writing
I rarely reflect on the process of writing Unbound, simply because it was a difficult time in my life. I began writing a very rough first draft after the birth of my second child; I was struggling with PPD, grieving the loss of my mother-in-law, and trying to adjust to life with a newly-diagnosed diabetic […]
C.L. LAUDER INTERVIEWS KYJTA CROMENK
About The Quelling (The Quelling – A Trilogy, 1) Befriend your enemy, save your friend. Fans of Hunger Games and Shadow and Bone will be gripped by this dystopian sci-fi set on Aurora Saura, a planet of merchants and farmers whose quiet lives were interrupted nineteen years prior by an invasion of technically advanced beings […]
Thoughts on My Process as a Writer
Thoughts on My Process as a Writer I’m Barbara Sommer Feigin, a refugee who at age two-and-a-half escaped from Nazi Germany in July of 1940, at the onset of World War II with my Jewish father, my Lutheran mother and 79 other refugees on a terrifying seventeen-day train trip from Berlin to Yokohama, Japan, and […]
The Strange and Expansive World of Narrative Craft By Angie Elita Newell
The Strange and Expansive World of Narrative Craft By Angie Elita Newell Almost every writer will tell you, you actually spend more time thinking about writing than actually writing. In that strange moonlit landscape an idea dances in the mist, consuming you, it plays like a lucid dream in your head. In this transcendental space […]
The Porn Star’s Daughter: Character Interview
Kay Stephens interviews Tali Hunter from her novel THE PORN STAR’S DAUGHTER How do you escape the stigma of your parents’ porn empire? For Tali Hunter it’s easy . . . —Attend college in New Orleans, a city her parents hate. Check. —Overhaul her image to leave all traces of her past behind. Check. —Invent […]
Anju Gattani: Authors Interviewing Characters
ONCE AND FOR ALL, the long-awaited second installment of Anju Gattani’s WNDS OF FIRE SERIES is out and we’re delighted to feature this character interview! ONCE AND FOR ALL “Downton Abbey meets Sleeping with the Enemy but set in India!”—BooksByWomen.org “A sensational blockbuster!”—The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation What would […]
The Writer’s Garden
THE WRITER’S GARDEN by Heather Mateus Sappenfield What are the seeds of your narratives? Are they concepts? Problems? Themes? With three novels and one short story collection under my belt, I’ve learned that my narratives usually arise from things I witness. Things about our humanity that leave a deep impression. After that initial impression, they […]
Writing to Heal By K.T. Carlisle, author of Reasonable
Writing to Heal By K.T. Carlisle, author of Reasonable Sometimes life throws you a curve ball—like realizing you never set your alarm clock after you’re already an hour late for your appointment. Other times, it pulls the rug completely out from under you, leaving you scrambling for reason where none exists. This is how I […]
On Writing House On Fire
I recently finished The Crown. I’m not much of a TV person. It’s common for me to view an episode or two of a series with my husband, lose interest, then proceed to do other things while he follows a show through to its finale. I can count on one hand the series I’ve watched […]
On Writing Energetic Anatomy Made Easy
My story begins at my first yoga teacher training in 2004. We (the trainees) sat on the floor in a circle with our eyes closed, our spines upright, and our question for that day’s meditation written in front of us. Our guide asked us to focus on our breath. A few minutes later we were […]
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