Category: On Writing
The Dream Purse: A Psychoanalytic Journey of Becoming through Psilocybin, Art, and Movement by Natalie R. Cohen, PsyD
I am a psychologist and psychoanalyst who also identifies as kind, tired, and a mover. Creating art has always been a vehicle for my inner life, offering relief from conflict and a nonverbal invitation to explore what wants to emerge. During my psychoanalytic training, I engaged in multiple psychedelic journeys, and each one taught me […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Andrea Thome
A fresh voice in contemporary romance, Andrea Thome, author of the award-winning Hesse Creek Series, returns with Mine Again, the first book in her new Sunflower Series, set in a fictional small town in western Montana. Delilah Spencer is a rolling stone. A big city attorney from Chicago on a temporary work assignment in Sunflower, […]
PEOPLE RUIN EVERYTHING
As a child, I wanted become a writer. I had no idea what I would write about, but the idea of putting part of me onto a page that would last forever was heady. I got older and read like mad. Lots of novels, a few story collections, almost no poetry or non-fiction. When I […]
It’s Not the Witches. It’s Us By Kimberly Belle
A couple Halloweens ago, Vanessa Lillie, Cate Holahan and I stood in a graveyard in Salem, Massachusetts, debating how exactly four young, rich widows in heels and pencil skirts could break into an ancient crypt without getting caught. This was after we’d bumped into Sasquatch strolling down the street with a plastic pumpkin bucket and […]
How ILLEGITIMATE Took Seven Revisions and Ten Years to get Published by Maddie Lock
I didn’t start out to write a memoir. It was in a small café in Bavaria that my German aunt lifted a glass of wine to her lips and casually stated that she had found her father; that our grandfather, who we thought was her father was not. She was, in fact, a child created […]
Judy Foreman: On Writing The Scallop Plot
I’ve been writing my whole life — my high school newspaper, my college paper, many, many wonderful years as the Boston Globe health columnist and science writer, and most recently, as a novice writer of thrillers. And I can tell you, writing fiction, mysteries no less, after all these years of telling the truth, of […]
From Journaling to a Novel by Lorelei Brush
The Boy With the Butterfly Mind started out with journaling in the late 1990’s. I was married to a man with ADHD, raising a child with ADHD, and working a demanding job in international development. My life felt like chaos much of the time. Traveling internationally was actually the part of life that kept me […]
When is it Time to Write a Sequel? by Deb Richardson-Moore
It’s easier than writing a standalone, that’s for sure. You’ve already got your setting, many of your characters, and a certain comfort with a specific time and place. Think Louise Penny’s Three Pines and her stalwart Armand Gamache, surrounded by a stable of colorful Canadians. Or J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts and Harry, Hermione and Ron. My […]
On Writing Betting the Farm – How a Maverick Entrepreneur and a Band of Scientists Changed Agriculture Forever
“Betting the Farm – How a Maverick Entrepreneur and a Band of Scientists Changed Agriculture Forever” chronicles the story of Agrigenetics, a company that pioneered technology to create better plants using gene technologies. It was the early 1980s. The authors Janice Kimpel and Adrienne Clarke are scientists and were both involved in the company, Adrienne […]
You Are the Heroine You’ve Been Waiting For by Dale M. Kushner
I’m sitting at my desk in writing studio, my golden retriever, Maisie, curled at my feet. Outside, summer sunlight sifts through the leaves. A new wren family has moved into the birdhouse, the mother wren in a flurry of departures and returns, food for her nestlings in her beak. She reminds me of the helper […]
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