Category: On Writing
MY WRITING JOURNEY by Robin Lee Hatcher
MY WRITING JOURNEY by Robin Lee Hatcher I am often asked how I got started as a writer. Did I always want to write stories? Did I write my first book as a child or a teen (as quite a few authors can claim)? Where did it begin for me? My writing journey began with […]
THE UNEXPECTED DISCLOSURE THAT SPARKED WOMAN OF AN UNCERTAIN AGE
THE UNEXPECTED DISCLOSURE THAT SPARKED WOMAN OF AN UNCERTAIN AGE Several years ago, I met an Indian-American girl at a wedding in a large U.S. city and we started talking. She grew up comfortably in the United States with a professional father and a stay-at-home mother, and I got the sense that her family was one […]
Reclaim Your Story: Renew Your Health and Wellness through the Power of Storytelling
We are delighted to feature an excerpt from Reclaim Your Story: Renew Your Health and Wellness through the Power of Storytelling by CARRIE JAROSINSKI Storytelling is a powerful tool that has been used through the ages. It can be used to teach the next generation what to avoid and how to be successful and to […]
Writing The Biography Collection Music Mavens
Music Mavens feature for Women Writers, Women’s Books What excited us most about writing the biography collection Music Mavens was the opportunity to show teen readers the vast scope of the music industry—the diversity of artists and motivations, the variety of genres and roles, and the doors now opening for young women in arenas traditionally […]
On Writing Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
Eve Bites Back, in essence, explores what it takes to create literature if you are a woman – and is rooted in my belief that we can and should consider lives as well as works. Not everybody agrees, arguing that the ‘biographical turn’ leads inexorably to sexism, salacious anecdotes displacing serious textual analysis. I have […]
Life Dust: Writing Through a Nursing Lens
Life Dust: Writing Through a Nursing Lens What do John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell, Katherine Neville, and Pam Webber have in common? We all write novels that include aspects of our previous or current professions. In other words, we write what we know. Not just for the ease and added insight, but because we can demystify, […]
On Writing Chingona: Owning your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice
When I first started writing Chingona: Owning your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice, I was still on my own healing journey. I knew I wanted to share my experiences to help other Latina and POC women heal from intergenerational trauma. I was healing and practicing survivance, which Gerald Vizenor says is “an active resistance.” […]
On Writing Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together
As a kid I knew I was queer. By the time I was in middle school I’d had my first intense crush on a girl—one of my best friends—though I didn’t realize at the time it was a crush, because no one had ever told me that a girl could like another girl like that. […]
An Unconventional Path to Writing, by Lenore Borja
An Unconventional Path to Writing, by Lenore Borja I moved to New York City at the age of twenty to attend The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA). I was going to be an actress—not just any actress, a famous one. I say this because there is an enormous distinction between the two. A working […]
Frankenstein Made Me Do It: On Writing Weird Girls
Frankenstein Made Me Do It: On Writing Weird Girls When I first read Frankenstein, I was thrilled by this well-read, well-intentioned poetic monster, creature of the sublime who, because he’s misunderstood, becomes monstrous. Most of all, I was fascinated by the way he was created: how he was crafted from various corpses, heterogeneous as anything. […]
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