Category: On Writing
Unmasking the Imposter: Directing Your Authentic Life Story By Coline Monsarrat
Unmasking the Imposter: Directing Your Authentic Life Story By Coline Monsarrat Imposter syndrome causes that annoying little voice to whisper in your head, “You’re not as brilliant as they think you are.” It has probably played a role in the theater of most of our minds at one point or another. Let’s face it — […]
Crossing Categories
Crossing Categories Of the two main protagonists in my novel, Everybody Here is Kin, one is thirteen. Lucille is marooned on a barrier island while her mother leaves her minding her two step-siblings, seven and five. The other is a misanthropic veteran of thirty. Will has marooned himself, and, alone, he manages the only motel […]
Five Things I Learned Writing My Debut Novel
In 2014 I experienced a writer crisis. Not the kind of crisis where you eat a pint of Ben & Jerry’s and hang out in your pajamas for days on end. It was more of a stop-what-you’re-doing-and-contemplate-your-future kind of event. At that time I was busy parenting a precocious daughter and writing for the local […]
On Writing Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown
Annie Dawid PARADISE UNDONE: A NOVEL OF JONESTOWN: a chronology Spring 2004, Portland, Oregon In the “C” aisle of Powell’s Bookstore, the largest independent bookshop in my city, I finger the spines of various non-fiction books about communes, in preparation for my upcoming sabbatical, during which I plan to write my next novel. In Southern […]
The Physical Decomposition of Writing a Memoir
The Physical Decomposition of Writing a Memoir I aim my nipple draped in tissue paper at the line on the white plastic. The sensitive nerves in my breast respond to the cold against my skin with a tightening. I smell the woody scent of musk as I raise my arm. I forgot to put on […]
Nana the Great Communicator
Nana the Great Communicator If there is an inheritable gene for story-telling, mine came from my mother’s mother. My nana should have been a writer. No one could tell a story like her. She was the eldest of six children of a modest immigrant family from Eastern Europe that settled in Boston at the turn […]
A Series of Unfortunate Deaths By Victoria Dowd
A Series of Unfortunate Deaths By Victoria Dowd Murder Most Cold is the fifth book in the Smart Woman’s mystery series. The books follow the Smart women who are Ursula Smart, our rather unreliable narrator; Pandora Smart, her mother; Aunt Charlotte; and, of course, Bridget with her bizarre menagerie of pets. The books are classic […]
Mined Memories By Morgan Christie, author of Boolean Logic
Mined Memories By Morgan Christie, author of Boolean Logic In writing, as in most things, I find myself thinking about the future: the next project, submission, reading, event, etc. So whenever I’m asked to discuss my writing journey, I constantly find myself pausing; taking more time than I otherwise would to sort through my memories […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kathleen M. Willett
Anything For a Friend Author/Character Interview ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND For two old friends with so much to hide, playing catch-up is a dangerous game in a propulsive novel of suspense by the author of Mother of All Secrets. Writer Carrie Colts hopes a move to Montauk will be a rejuvenating change of pace for […]
Inspiration for Happy AF by Beth Romero
Inspiration for Happy AF by Beth Romero Many people ask me what inspired Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life. As the title attests, it is a comprehensive guidebook for happiness. I always respond that I didn’t set out to write a book, but rather the book set […]
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