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Writing Comedy Collaboratively: How To Squeeze The Pips
Writing comedy collaboratively: how to squeeze the pips By Gail Aldwin As one of three women who write collaboratively as 3-She, I’ve learnt so much about comedy from my co-writers. We met at a workshop several years ago run by Juno Theatre based in Salisbury, an organisation dedicated to promoting women’s proactive involvement in theatre. […]
Creating an Audiobook – In Kathmandu
I am a fortunate woman. Our family and friends have mostly sidestepped the awful virus and I have managed to stay productive throughout lockdown whereas many of my writing friends have found it hard to focus. Perhaps living so many years as a nomadic expatriate has equipped me to face changes in circumstances? I have […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Constance Sayers
Authors Interviewing Characters: Constance Sayers The Ladies of the Secret Circus is a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America full of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus. Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder—a world where women […]
Character Interview: The Vines by Shelley Nolden
About THE VINES In the shadows of New York City lies the abandoned, forbidden North Brother Island, where the remains of a shuttered hospital hide the haunting memories of quarantines and human experiments. The ruins conceal the scarred and beautiful Cora, imprisoned there by contagions and the doctors who torment her. When Finn, a young […]
Writing Loving before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White
If I had a nickel for each time a stranger has told me, “I know my life would be a bestseller!” I’d be wealthy. Sometimes they even offer their story, asking me to simply write it down. “My life has been so amazing, the book would write itself.” Well, not really. Books do not write […]
WRITING LEMONS IN THE GARDEN: NOT FAMOUS ENOUGH
Forty years ago, I had a dream in which Blanche Ames told me to write her autobiography. I’d read about Blanche while I was working on a team to write a massive women’s history reference book, and of course her name caught my attention. Then I learned that Blanche was my grandmother’s aunt. How was […]
Creating the Backstory: A Delicate Art
Characters shouldn’t be simple. In a novel, the “good guys” can’t be saints, and the “bad guys” shouldn’t be wooden demons who do nothing but snarl and bite. The most relatable, admirable, and sympathetic characters require personality flaws and moments of weakness, and the less appealing ones should, sometimes, evoke compassion. In reality, humans are […]
Kris Bock: Bios Made Easy
Kris Bock: Bios Made Easy Writers need bios, for query letters, on websites, for conference brochures. If we are writers surely we can write about ourselves. Yet while coordinating writing conferences, I discovered that even published authors often write poor bios, whether through modesty, carelessness, or overwriting. Many bios are entertaining, but don’t do their […]
Writing Sin Child
I spent my childhood and much of my adult life hiding behind a dark curtain of fear. Fear of what would happen on a daily basis. Fear of all those who judged me and sought revenge based on the doings of my family. Fear of falling asleep at night, not knowing who would be coming […]
The Shelf in the Corner
By Teresa J. Rhyne I write about dogs. There. I said it. Did you scoff? Did you think “she is not a serious writer”? Did the word “cute” pop into your head? No? So, it’s just me. I didn’t plan on writing dog books, or dog-oirs as I call them (memoir meets dog book). I […]
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