Category: On Writing
IF YOU’RE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO GET ON WITH WRITING THE BOOK, RIGHT?
Anyone who has ever tried to write a book will know the pressure of finishing that first draft. It can take months, maybe even years. You get up every morning, stare at the blinking curser and wait for the words to come. Then, when they don’t, you try to force them onto the page – […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: LIZA NASH TAYLOR
A sweeping Jazz Age tale of regret, ambition, and redemption inspired by true events, including Josephine Baker’s 1925 Paris debut in Le Revue Nègre. “Fasten your seatbelts…this is one fabulous book that will keep you turning pages.” —Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer Listed in PARADE MAGAZINE’S 30 Best Beach […]
Being A Writer In Beirut
Marina Chamma is a Beirut-based political economist, writer and blogger on eyeontheeast.org. Having started her university studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, she graduated from the American University of Beirut with a B.A. in Political Science and obtained a M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics. And So We Drive On […]
Don’t Just Sit There…Write Something
DON’T JUST SIT THERE…WRITE SOMETHING By Barbara Fox I decided to become a writer in the first grade when my story about dolls. “I have two dolls; their names are Susan and Caroline. I love them. I play with them everyday” was published in the school newspaper. Since then I’ve written countless newspaper articles, short […]
Elizabeth Guider: On Writing
Elizabeth Guider is a longtime entertainment journalist who has lived and worked in Rome, Paris and London as well as in New York City and Los Angeles. Born in the South, she holds a doctorate in Renaissance Studies from New York University. Currently, she divides her time between Hollywood, where she does freelance writing about […]
Author Rapid Fire Questions
WWWB’s managing editor Barbara and I started chatting about an interview for Books by Women just as my family and I were heading off on a weekend camping trip. She was happy to let me come up with the format, so I decided to use the opportunity for some fun around the campfire! My hubby […]
The Story Behind the Story: A Good Family
People often ask me: what was the inspiration behind your debut novel, A Good Family? Several years ago, I wrote my first book – a young adult novel – and was unable to find an agent to represent me. Frustrated, I said to myself: “I’ll show them! I’m going to write a page-turner that no […]
The Mill of Lost Dreams, by Lori Rohda: The Story Behind the Story
When Annie died, it left a hole in my heart that has never healed. For forty years, this petite, quiet, woman loved and guided me when my mother couldn’t. She raised me. I am literally rooted in her and draft off her amazing courage every single day. I wanted to write about Annie as a […]
Down the Forest Path – in Sunlight and in Shadow
Inspiration for THE SHADOW BIRD by Ann Gosslin I’ve heard some writers say that story ideas hit them like a bolt of lightning. Others describe how an enticing idea came to them slowly over time, like bits and pieces of a puzzle to be solved. A character here, an important image there, as they built […]
A COOKING TOUR OF PROVENÇE
“So, who would like to join me on a traditional cooking tour to Provençe?” our culinary instructor asked one evening during a cooking class. Without hesitation, I put down the artichoke I was trimming, and my hand shot up. Could this be an answer to a dream calling my name? Less than a year before, […]
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