Category: On Writing
The Power of Never Giving Up
Time flies. We all know it. Whether you’re having fun or not. Whether the years are filled with sublime happiness or utter sadness, or, like most of us, with a combination of both. It simply goes, and sometimes, our dreams go with it. We turn around and ten or twenty years have whipped by and […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Eliza Graham author of The Lines We Leave Behind
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Eliza Graham author of The Lines We Leave Behind Interview with Maud Knight on board a Halifax bomber heading for Yugoslavia, March 1944. Why are you shivering, Maud? I’m flying out to carry out an operation with the Partisans. It’s cold in this Halifax — it’s a military aircraft with […]
The Idea of North: Writing and Recovery By Tanya Marquardt
I wrote the first draft of my book Stray: Memoir of a Runaway drunk. Like blind, staggering drunk. In 2010 that’s what I did best. I had gotten into a prestigious MFA Program, moved from Canada to New York after my mother co-signed a loan from the bank, and had two years to spend my […]
Writing and Other Jobs
Towards the end of 2014, I found myself in the position I had long dreamed of: I was able to give up my day job and dedicate myself to writing. It had been a whirlwind few months since winning the Bath Novel Award in June, meeting my wonderful agent Juliet Mushens and signing a two-book […]
Dads And Their Daughters
When a gunman opened fire on tourists sunbathing on the beach in Tunisia on 26th June 2015, one girl fled with her boyfriend into their hotel reception – and then she called her dad back in the UK to ask him what she should do. It was a poignant detail of that awful tragedy that […]
Writing Became The New Love Of My Life
Life has a way of bringing you to places you would never have expected or planned for. It could be a new home, in a different state or country, a new friend, experience or a new career. I had two careers when I started writing, and didn’t even dream at that time that I would […]
The Power of Journaling
Why should you take time from your busy day to journal? Because stories rise up out of journaling, and even if they don’t, your story matters. No one can tell your story but you. Never Too Late: From Wannabe to Wife at 62 started my journaling about the new relationship I found, on Craigslist of […]
My Publishing Journey: Judge Marylin E. Atkins
FAMILY & FRIENDS INSPIRE COURAGE & DESIRE TO EMBARK ON MY PUBLISHING JOURNEY Before they even know the most painful parts of my story… For the last ten years, my daughters, Elizabeth and Catherine, had been urging me to write my life story. “Marylin, you should write a book!” people declared for decades upon hearing about […]
From Academic Writing To Podcasting And Fiction
This year I published my first fiction book, but it’s a long way from being my writing debut. In 2010 I submitted my PhD thesis, and around that time I wandered into a career as a research developer and proposal writer. These days, as well as writing fiction, I work with researchers to help them […]
How Growing Up In A Haunted House Inspired My Writing
People really didn’t believe me. They still don’t. But she was real. The ghost was real. And I saw her. Often. It scared me. At first, anyway. But then she became such a unique part of my home, that I almost didn’t notice her shenanigans, like banging kitchen cupboard doors, turning on all the lights […]
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