Category: On Writing
Looking Back to Look Forward: Or, Why We Read Historical Fiction
By Carrie Callaghan This is a true story. In the winter of 1938, before Hitler invaded anything, Milly Bennett sat in a room in New Jersey and looked out the window. Seven or eight children dressed warmly laughed and pulled their sleds in the snow. She typed, “I have looked into the future and it […]
The Writing of Hunting the Devil
When I decided to celebrate my sixtieth birthday in Africa, I didn’t realize the culmination of my life-long love affair with Tarzan would result in my book Hunting the Devil. As I made plans, I asked my son if he’d accompany me, and he replied with the ultimate teenage endorsement: “I guess so.” With this […]
Behind Every Lie – Finding Beauty in the Broken By: Christina McDonald
I wrote Behind Every Lie in the aftermath of the news story about Chanel Miller (known at the time as Emily Doe), who was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner at Stanford University. Like many around the world, I was profoundly moved by her victim impact statement. After reading it I thought, ‘How do you go […]
Acting And Writing
Tina Sloan is best known for her twenty-six-year role on CBS’s soap The Guiding Light and as the author of Changing Shoes: Getting Older – Not Old – with Style, Humor and Grace based on her autobiographical one-woman show. The Changing Shoes book release coincided with the launch of the show in New York, which went on to grace stages across […]
Writing and Sex, by Sande Boritz Berger
When I first began writing on the cusp of becoming a teen, sex was never a subject matter of either my poetry or short stories, nor was the three-letter word mentioned in my reading material at the time- the 1950’s. I was a naïve, though dedicated fan of the popular female sleuths, Nancy Drew and […]
A Typical Writing Day: Anne Leigh Parrish
I come into my office each morning with one goal—to calm the chaos in my head. I don’t sleep well these days, probably my body telling me I need fewer hours in the sack—and what I’m working on tends to make its way into my dreams and woozy waking moments. I always have several projects […]
Parenting And Writing
My name is Jacqueline Pirtle. I pride myself deeply and consciously in being fully in love with the most truth-finding job there is; being a mom, a parent—a privilege in every sense. To top my parenting experience off with a heap of sweetness, I get to share my life and happiness with my wonderful husband […]
Lucinda Through the Looking Glass By Lucinda Mack
I’ve always felt like Alice gazing into her looking glass and wondering who it actually reflected. Who am I? Finding the answer to this complex question, had ripped at my gray matter for many years. I held many jobs, but never thought about embarking on a writing career. Who would care to read the words […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: DANIELLE WONG INTERVIEWS AMELIA COLE
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: DANIELLE WONG SWEARING OFF STARS tells the story of Amelia Cole―Lia for short—one of the first women studying abroad at Oxford University in the 1920s. Finally free from her overbearing Brooklyn parents, she finds a welcome sense of independence in British college life. Lia quickly falls for Scarlett Daniels, an aspiring […]
Life Disrupted: A Source Of Creation
A month ago we moved. We left a community where we’d been deeply rooted for the last thirty years. We left wide skies and open fields of the high shrub steppe for a forested island near Seattle. The move brings us closer to family, to grandkids, to big city opportunities, but wrenches me from the […]
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