Category: On Writing
Do you know how your novel will end when you start writing it?
We asked you on twitter! Do you know how your novel will end when you start writing it? — Women Writers (@WomenWriters) August 1, 2014 @WomenWriters yes always! Rough plot first including ending then flesh out from there. — Sally King (@SallyKingUK) August 1, 2014 @WomenWriters: that kind of assumes I have an inkling of […]
Is Reading Still Relevant: Interview with Dr. Ang Sze Wei
Chialin Yu our correspondent on Chinese Women Writers attended the 10th Hong Kong Literature Festival and caught up with Dr. Ang Sze Wei of Hong Kong University’s Department of Comparative Literature.The Hong Kong Public Library had invited her to give a talk called “Why We Read”. Chialin interviewed her on her thoughts about reading, its relevance in […]
How Writing and Gardening Overlaps
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” -Margaret Atwood This spring, when the first grape hyacinths were pushing their way through the snow, I made a decision to abandon something I love for something I love even more. Although I grew up in a family of avid gardeners, […]
You don’t need support to write: you own your own words
This week @WomenWriters asked on Twitter: How does your family view your writing? Are they supportive? — Women Writers (@WomenWriters) July 20, 2014 My initial response was pretty harsh. @WomenWriters Conversations like this can mislead. We don’t need family support or approval to write. — Racheline Maltese (@racheline_m) July 20, 2014 Who needs support? And […]
The Poetic World of Emily Brontë
We have all read a novel or poem at one time in our lives, maybe in high school or college, and then read it later in life and experienced the work in a different way — usually finding meaning that was absent the first time around. For example, I read Catcher in the Rye in […]
La Belle Creole: Cuba’s earliest Female Author
Alina García-Lapuerta is the biographer of María de las Mercedes de Santa Cruz y Montalvo (often called La Belle Créole), Cuba’s earliest female author. What does writing a biography involve? We asked her. How do you decide to recreate someone’s life? What drives you down a path that twists and turns and often leads to dead […]
What is the best book by a woman writer you’ve read this year? #readwomen2014
What is the best book by a woman writer you’ve read this year? We asked you on twitter. Here are your answers! #readwomen2014 @WomenWriters It’s a draw between Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places and Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend. #readomwne2014 — Isabel Ferreira (@isa_m_ferreira) July 10, 2014 @WomenWriters A God in Every Stone by @kamilashamsie — […]
Putting flesh Upon The Bones ~ Using Creative Non-fiction to Tell Her Story
When Judy Pollard Smith came across an article on missionary Alice Seeley Harris, whose photographs brought down the Belgian Congo, she couldn’t believe she’d never heard of her before. Intrigued, she began to research, which led to her writing a biography of Alice, the woman she calls the mother of all human rights work. This […]
The Highs and Lows of Writing
When Women Writers, Women’s Books suggested that I should do another blog I was cautious. What should the subject be? Perhaps I could write on the pleasure of getting an option for a three part TV series for my novel Burnt Norton, but there are many options taken out each year on many books. Some […]
Rosie Garland: From Mslexia Novel Competition to Harper Collins
This month, three judges decide the winner of the 2nd Mslexia Unpublished Novel Competition. Someone is about to receive a life-changing phone call. Two years ago, I was that woman. I never imagined I would be. Fairytales are for other folk. I’d lost faith in my writing ‘getting anywhere’: indeed, I’d lost faith in my […]
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