Category: On Writing
Exophonic Writers
What do you call an author who writes in a language that isn’t their mother tongue? Believe it or not, it does actually have an official name – an exophonic writer. Exophonic writers are an eccentric bunch, for it does take a peculiar mind to choose to express yourself in a language that isn’t really […]
Will I Ever Write Again? Surviving My Worst Fears As A Writer
Will I ever write again? Surviving my worst fears as a writer It was the morning of Thursday, September 20. I was in the train, headed back home to NYC from Maryland, after doing the introduction and in-author conversation at a friend’s book launch the night before. My heart was full for my friend; she had […]
Writing Indescribable
How do I begin to write the story of my childhood sexual abuse, how do I find the words to explain the indescribable situation my eight-year-old self-adapted to and compartmentalised at such a young age? Why was I compelled to write the ugliness of what happened to me? Shouldn’t I have left it silently awake […]
Coping: An Author’s Chat With A Character
Author Lynn Goodwin chats to her book character Sandee Mason. Dear Sandee Mason, I am so sorry our publisher gave up. I loved your story and I know you did too. You were always my favorite character. You let me know your opinions. Shared them without hesitation. Loved your streaks of maturity, your aspirations, and […]
From Prison Manager To Author
I wrote ‘The Handbook for Highly Sensitive People’ to help HSPs to thrive rather than just survive in this non-sensitive world. One in five or 1.4 billion people globally have the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity. I am one of them, but for the first thirty-two years of my life I didn’t know about […]
Writing the Hard Stuff: Seven Things You Need to Know
Tell me if you can relate to this: You’re deep into your writing and everyone else in the house is asleep, even the dog. You’re crying as you type, wiping at your face in order to see the computer screen, unwilling to leave your keyboard to get a tissue. In fact, you’re so completely in […]
Writing Putney
The inspiration for writing Putney began to take hold when my two daughters were teenagers. It was a time when the news brought apparently endless stories of men charged with child sexual abuse. Shocking numbers of these accusations dated back decades and especially to the 1970s – the era when I was growing up in […]
How I Wrote an Historical Novel Set in China
It seems that China has always beckoned to me. The process involved in writing my novel, The Secret Language of Women, Book #1 of the Wayfarer Trilogy, began way before I ever thought of becoming a writer. I was a child growing up in Brooklyn and became entranced by the Chinese family who owned the […]
My Mother’s Blessing To Be A Writer
It’s been eleven years since my mother passed away, eleven years since I last heard her voice. She was sixty-three years old, unquestionably too young. After she died, I began paying attention to the experiences friends had with similar losses. Some of them spoke of messages they believed their loved ones had sent – birds […]
Why I Wrote About The Dark Side Of Fashion
The fashion industry, as seen from the outside, has a bad image and reputation. It’s all shine, puffery and surface. Is fashion only about beautiful women in stunning clothes? I wrote Wildchilds because I wanted to delve deeply into that other side, the one which, as a player for four decades, knew so well. I […]
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