Category: On Writing
The Short Story and Psychotherapy: A Compatible Duo
By Linda Feyder I have always been attracted to the short story, the novel’s strange little sibling. I find stories gripping, transcendent, and revealing in a way that often strikes me by surprise. Stories are like unexpected moments when you catch something fleeting that pierces your heart. As short story writer Lorrie Moore once said, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Paulette Stout
Love, Only Better centers on the intimate quest of my main character, twenty-eight-year-old Rebecca Sloane. When her ex storms out, his stinging bedroom insults linger. She begins the empowering task of connecting with her sexual self, but her magnetic connection with Kyle, a gorgeous new neighbor across the hall, complicates matters. Rebecca struggles to juggle […]
Selective Writer’s Block: When Some Things Are Better Left Unwritten
Darkness is oppressive. Silence echoes what I do not want to hear. Night is a curse that keeps on coming back. Night is the green screen onto which everything is projected, what I do not want to see nor feel, my anxieties, my fears and pains. The sunrise ushers the relief of light, the glow […]
Good Grief: The A to Z Approach of Modern Day Grief Healing
I learned many moons ago that there is no such thing as coincidence and everything is a beautiful synchronicity in our life. Good Grief: The A to Z Approach of Modern Day Grief Healing is a book for your grief journey, but the book itself has been on its own unique journey to be able […]
Writing and Music: Why it’s Essential to my Creative Process and How I’ve Ruined Entire Albums for my Husband
“Writing and Music: Why it’s essential to my creative process and how I’ve ruined entire albums for my husband” by Helena Hunting Once upon a time, before I spent my days sitting in front of a monitor, creating characters, worlds and stories, I worked in an office and had a colleague who didn’t like music. […]
Write What You Know: Is she Based on You?
Write what you know… ‘Is the woman based on you?’ my friend asks. ‘I mean, have you really behaved like that?’ Her eyes are widening, her brow furrowing; I can imagine the kind of thoughts crowding through her head. She has just read my novel and is wondering whether the protagonist I’ve created, may be […]
Writing The Silence of Scheherazade
I grew up in Istanbul, The New York city of Turkey. Being immersed in the rich, layered history of my own town and in the imminent vibrancy of it at the time of my youth I didn’t pay much attention to Smyrna (Izmir), the third biggest city of Turkey. For me it was a nice […]
Tori Eldridge Interviews Lily Wong and Ma
Tori Eldridge is the Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards-nominated author of the Lily Wong mystery thriller series—The Ninja Daughter, The Ninja’s Blade, and The Ninja Betrayed—and the upcoming dark Brazilian fantasy, Dance Among the Flames (out May 2022). She agreed to interview Lily Wong and Ma from her novel THE NINJA BETRAYED About THE NINJA BETRAYED Things get personal […]
The Writing of a Memoir: Insanities Nobody Tells You About
I birthed my book twice: after growing it in my gut and on the page for eight years. The first time—self-publishing—was agony and disappointing. The second time—with a legit hybrid press—was dignifying and empowering. Do all authors feel like they “birth” their books? I imagine memoirists, like myself, do because more than birthing a book […]
Writing and Witchcraft
I think that, by and large, writers are a superstitious bunch. We rely on inspiration at lot and it’s a whimsical force which often fails us. We go for walks to find it, as if it’s a wood sprite hiding in a forest. On the other side of things, we fear the dreaded demon known […]
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