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On Writing and Early Motherhood
On Writing and Early Motherhood ‘You’ll never have time to read.’ The first time I heard it, it sounded strange, remote from my life. The second, third times, it began to sink in. And there were more. ‘You’ll find it a challenge just to get through the day.’ ‘You’ll develop “mummy brain.”’ If you’ve ever […]
Authors Interviewing Characters : Loren Stephens
Loren Stephens is a published essayist, short story writer and president of two ghostwriting companies, Write Wisdom and Bright Star Memoirs, which she founded to help her client/authors write their memoirs, self-help books and novels. ALL SORROWS CAN BE BORNE published on May 11, 2021 by Rare Bird Books will be her first novel penned under her own name. […]
Art For the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives
By Whitney Otto I always knew that I would never write a traditional memoir or autobiography. I felt my life wasn’t eventful enough in any sort of significant way, which can be good in the real world, but can be something of a liability in the memoir world. Also, my favorite memoirs/autobiographies run along less […]
When Your Book is on a Topic Nobody Wants to Think About
When your book is on a topic nobody wants to think about Kathleen Basi Bear with me a minute, because I’m going to start with a cliché: a book is like a baby. I know, I know. But it really is! You dream about it, you conceive it, you gestate it, you labor over it, […]
Finding The Words As A #WRITERMOM
Finding the words as a #writermom By Casey Dembowski #writermom It’s one of my favorite hashtags and something I’m always quick to point out—I’m a writer mom. I’ve been a writer nearly my whole life, but being a writer mom is something different. The two roles are often at odds with each other. If I’m […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging is not just another tale of an adoptee’s desire for personal history. This is a real-life story of twin sisters–adopted at birth and raised together–who face the daunting task of locating and connecting with birth relatives because one of […]
The Sentence
I, who love words so much, am surprised to find myself newly enchanted with the sentence as a unit of language. Sentences in all their delicious variety, some with many clauses, dipping in and out, amplifying a theme before it brings itself, sharply, to a halt. Or long sentences that make you think, having to […]
Call Yourself A Writer by Anne Leigh Parrish
I recently took part in a virtual author event with two other women writers. Let me say how much I have come to appreciate the magic of Zoom video conferencing, aside from not having a paid account which meant getting dumped off the call after forty minutes. No problem, everyone, including the audience, was able […]
The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother
by Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD This book was born in 1983, when my 68-year-old divorced mother-in-law announced her remarriage. Ironically, her second wedding coincided with my divorce– from none other than her son! I’d always assumed her life as a divorced woman was lonely and difficult, but she opened up and dissuaded me of that […]
How I found The Seed of my Novel Inside Troves of Historical Research
If we speak the truth fearlessly, we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.” – Lucy Stone Lucy Stone was one of the “triumvirate” of the Women’s Suffrage movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. However, she is […]
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