Category: On Writing
2022 Winter Must-Reads
Let’s be honest, winter is the one time of year where we all want to be trapped inside, and there’s no better way to enjoy that then to dive into a good book. If you can’t decide what’s next on your TBR we’ve put together a list of some of this cozy-season’s most intriguing reads. […]
Cai Emmons: Time Out of Time
This piece first appeared on Medium Cai Emmons, on Time and the first anniversary of her ALS diagnosis When I was teaching college-age and graduate fiction writers, I liked to use an exercise called “Braiding Time” to encourage the students to think about the interior lives of their characters and getting closer to understanding their […]
Interview with Emilya Naymark
A story that will keep you guessing until the very end, Emilya Naymark has given us another “captivating story that leads to an emotional but satisfying bittersweet ending.” Behind the Lie (Crooked Lane Books, Feb. 8, 2022) starts with a missing person, but also reveals the desperately true decisions women make for the sake of […]
Alana Quintana Albertson: Authors Interviewing Characters
Character Interview Ramón and Julieta is a fun, frothy romance full of family, culture, and tacos which celebrates Latine joy. Julieta Campos is a top chef at Las Pescas, her acclaimed sea-to-table taquería in her beloved community of Barrio Logan. Ramón Montez has recently been anointed People en Español’s most eligible bachelor. A ruthless businessman […]
Heart Medicine: Freedom from Painful Patterns is Possible!
Radhule Weininger on writing her book Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom—at Last by Radhule Weininger, MD, PHD, featuring forewords by H.H. the Dalai Lama and Joanna Macy — At 5:00 a.m. one morning fifteen years ago, I rolled uncomfortably from one side of my bed to the other, glancing anxiously toward the window, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jane Bennett Munro
“The Twelve Murders of Christmas: A Toni Day Mystery” by Jane Bennett Munro follows pathologist and amateur sleuth Toni Day as she finds herself at the center of a hunt for a vindictive criminal who sends her hints to his next victims through holiday cards containing macabre renditions of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” After […]
Interview with Zvezdana Rashkovich
Zvezdana Rashkovich is a Pushcart Prize nominated author, poet, meditation teacher, and writing mentor. Her culturally diverse background has made her inquisitive about stories and the hero/heroine myths that connect us all. We are delighted to feature this interview with her! Thank you so much for joining us on WWWB, Zvezdana! Thank YOU, for your […]
Writing Together: Elise Brenner and Nancy Spatz
On the writing process for Reiki: A Self-Practice to Live in Peace with Self and Others Before we met, we were each separately benefiting from our practice of self-Reiki healing, meditation, self-inquiry, and reflection. We were also both envisioning pathways of presenting self-Reiki practice as a mainstream practice for everyone and anyone—all of us with challenges […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Cara Reinard
Cara Cara Reinard is an author of women’s fiction and domestic suspense. She interviewed her character Holly Boswell from INTO THE SOUND for us! About INTO THE SOUND A terrified voice on the phone. The line goes dead. The mystery begins. During a superstorm, Holly Boswell receives a panicked call from her sister, Vivian: Come get […]
FLASH FICTION: The Prank by Densie Webb
The Prank, by Densie Webb It was a prank. A practical joke. Through the haze of slightly illicit drugs inhaled in the bushes behind the house, Evan found the plan hilarious. In the harsh, flickering florescent lights of the 53rd precinct, he had lost his sense of the ridiculous. “Roll your thumb on the paper. […]
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