Category: On Writing
Excerpt from Cammie Wolf Rice’s The Flight: My Opioid Journey
Excerpt from Cammie Wolf Rice’s The Flight: My Opioid Journey, Chapter 1 Cammie Wolf Rice is a mother, an advocate, an author and an agent for change. She has personal experience dealing with the dangers of opioid misuse through her own son’s battle from childhood through his passing at the age of 32. Cammie has […]
Giving Daisy A Voice by Libby Sternberg
By Libby Sternberg If we’re going to be honest about The Great Gatsby, it’s the story of a stalker and his victim, ultimately leading to tragedy. Jay Gatsby pursues his love, Daisy Buchanan, with such single-minded focus that he ends up buying a house across from her and throws glamorous parties as bait to lure […]
Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman
I HAD TO WRITE IT. Putting the words on the page was a commitment to the truth. One line led to the next. Sentence after sentence, a story unfolded. As it took shape, the narrative gathered itself into a bigger story. A story down on a page about a secret or something that nobody wanted […]
The Story of a Story: A Tale in Eight Chapters
The Story of a Story: A Tale in Eight Chapters By Barbara Linn Probst Each novel I’ve written has had its own “origin story”—that is, the tale of how it came to exist. Looking back at the evolution of each book, I’m always struck by the strange and unexpected way that disparate elements came together […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kate Heartfield
About Assassin’s Creed: The Magus Conspiracy London, 1851 – When Pierrette, a daring acrobat performing at the Great Exhibition, rescues the mathematician Ada Lovelace from a gang of thugs, she becomes immersed in an ancient feud between Assassins and Templars. But Lovelace is gravely ill, and shares her secrets with Pierrette, sending the acrobat in […]
An Excerpt from “Casting Grand Titans” In Shoot the Horses First by Leah Angstman
Leah Angstman’s debut collection of short histories Shoot the Horses First, releases February 23rd with Kernpunkt Press. Author Ryan Ridge says “She is the literary heir to Shelby Foote, Willa Cather, and E. L. Doctorow. Get off the internet and read this book!” She serves as the executive editor for Alternating Current Press and The Coil magazine and is a […]
Inspiration for Attribution by Linda Moore
Where do ideas come from? Original ideas, rare and precious, don’t happen often. Indeed, most ideas evolve from a collage of experiences, our own and those we hear or read about. Fiction writing or, if you prefer, storytelling offers a unique opportunity to mold a world of existing ideas into something new. Attribution began over a […]
On Writing Characters
Writing, like all art, is an act of creation and creation begins in the mind of the creator. My characters begin “life” as thoughts which I then expand upon bit by bit, layering personality and history onto them until I feel they are whole enough to have their own thoughts. It’s like a seed growing […]
How Hating My First Job Led to My Latest Book
Sara Bennett Wealer How Hating My First Job Led to My Latest Book My new young adult novel, GRAVE THINGS LIKE LOVE, takes place in a funeral home. Elaine, the main character, has grown up there, living on the top floors with her family, who run the business below. It’s a unique setting, and one […]
The Writing of Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine By Patricia Grayhall
The Writing of Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine By Patricia Grayhall February 2019 I take out the letters and journals in the file labeled Boston with shaky hands from the locked file cabinet in my closet. For forty years the letters from Dani lay unread because I couldn’t bear to look […]
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