Category: On Writing
Why We Need To Tell More Than One Story About Any Culture
I remember the first time I watched Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talks, “The Danger of A Single Story.” It moved me and stayed with me for a long time. I had talked about this very issue to some of my friends but had never heard this point-of-view with such eloquence. When a big-name New York City-based agent expressed […]
He Came In With It: Excerpt
When her son teenage Nick was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Miriam’s frenetic but happy life as an artist in Los Angeles was upended by one catastrophe after another: unexplainable violence, unanswered questions, endless disappointment, frustrations, and chaos. In her tireless search for help and answers, Miriam learns about the shocking shortfalls of our mental health system and […]
Write What You Know…Absolutely Nothing About
Do you ever get Paganini’s La Campanella stuck in your head? Are you addicted to Puccini operas? Do your hands feel achy after you play Rachmaninoff? My answers are no, hell no, and ha, very funny. To be honest, I know nothing about classical music. I have no ear for it, no cerebral mechanism to […]
An interview with Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief of Inanna Publications, the oldest feminist literary press in Canada
An interview with Luciana Ricciutelli, editor-in-chief of Inanna Publications, the oldest feminist literary press in Canada. Interview by Jocelyn Cullity / Truman State University Luciana Ricciutelli has been the editor-in-chief at Inanna Publications in Toronto since 1992. Founded in 1978 with the goal of making current writing on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to […]
Interview with Sherri Leimkuhler, Author of What’s Left Untold
Sherri Leimkuhler has written professionally for more than twenty years and her health-and-fitness column, “For the Fun of Fit,” appears bi-weekly in the Carroll County Times. A competitive triathlete and two-time Ironman finisher, Sherri also enjoys reading, hiking, paddleboarding, trail running, traveling, and wine tasting. Her debut novel WHAT’S LEFT UNTOLD, came out in May. […]
Writing Rachael’s Return
There are so many elements that go into why an author chooses to write a particular novel. For me, the primary question I am answering with the writing of the story must be an unusual and intriguing one. With Rachael’s Return, I caught myself wondering what would happen if a destined soulmate connection between mother […]
Why Every Female Protagonist Doesn’t Need to Wield a Sword to be Strong By Annie Sullivan
Why Every Female Protagonist Doesn’t Need to Wield a Sword to be Strong By Annie Sullivan When people ask me for book suggestions with strong female protagonists, they always seem to mean—and expect—a book with some sort of sword-wielding warrior or skilled assassin capable of fighting with knives, daggers, and anything else she can get […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Amanda Brainerd
“A total time machine–I loved it.” –Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where’d You Go Bernadette Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, and PopSugar A daringly honest, sexy debut novel about three young women coming of age in 1980s New England and New York–a bingeable summer read We asked Amanda […]
Threading the Labyrinth of Historical Research: How the twists and turns led to a Creative Writing PhD
[Part II after “Doing a PhD in Creative Writing: Is it for Everyone?”] by Dr Tiffani Angus Last year I wrote an article of advice about Creative Writing PhDs. The full story of how I wrote Threading the Labyrinth as part of my PhD is too long and complex to recount here; after all it […]
Doing a PhD in Creative Writing: Is it for Everyone? by Dr Tiffani Angus
When I go to my local surgery, I often see a different GP, and invariably a moment comes when they ask, “Just what kind of doctor are you?” I assume they think I’m judging them, like a secret shopper. When I tell them I’m the kind of doctor who can spell, they laugh and we […]
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