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On Change Meetings
Caroline won her first National Poetry competition at 10 years old and from that moment dreamed of being a writer. After juggling motherhood with modelling assignments, she founded an Interior Design Company working on many projects in the UK and abroad. Her second marriage to the widowed Conroy Harrowby brought four stepchildren into her life, […]
Writing Miracle Country
The first words that appear in Miracle Country came from an essay I wrote when I was twenty years old. The essay was called “Charade” and I wrote it in a college class taught by the writer Marcia Aldrich, the very first creative nonfiction class I ever took—my introduction to the genre that would become […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Terri Boas
TWO SCOOPS, NOT THREE Briony, Natalie and Lauren have been best friends since school. Now in their thirties, their lives couldn’t be more different. Eternally single Briony is desperate to find ‘the one’, while Lauren, a singer onboard cruise ships, is having far too much carefree fun to even think about settling down with ‘Mrs […]
Write What You Don’t Know
Many writing teachers tell new authors to write what they know. That has value if you are describing a setting, for example. It helps to know how the place looks, feels, smells, and sounds. But what if you write fantasy? No one knows what it’s like to live on another planet or have super powers. […]
IF YOU’RE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO GET ON WITH WRITING THE BOOK, RIGHT?
Anyone who has ever tried to write a book will know the pressure of finishing that first draft. It can take months, maybe even years. You get up every morning, stare at the blinking curser and wait for the words to come. Then, when they don’t, you try to force them onto the page – […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: LIZA NASH TAYLOR
A sweeping Jazz Age tale of regret, ambition, and redemption inspired by true events, including Josephine Baker’s 1925 Paris debut in Le Revue Nègre. “Fasten your seatbelts…this is one fabulous book that will keep you turning pages.” —Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer Listed in PARADE MAGAZINE’S 30 Best Beach […]
Being A Writer In Beirut
Marina Chamma is a Beirut-based political economist, writer and blogger on eyeontheeast.org. Having started her university studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, she graduated from the American University of Beirut with a B.A. in Political Science and obtained a M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics. And So We Drive On […]
Don’t Just Sit There…Write Something
DON’T JUST SIT THERE…WRITE SOMETHING By Barbara Fox I decided to become a writer in the first grade when my story about dolls. “I have two dolls; their names are Susan and Caroline. I love them. I play with them everyday” was published in the school newspaper. Since then I’ve written countless newspaper articles, short […]
The Good, The Mediocre and The Ugly: On Reviews
Most writers will agree that when it comes to achieving the goal of having a novel published, the dream and reality do not quite correlate. From the outside, it looks amazing – and of course, in many ways it is – but what looks like a joyous time of champagne quaffing, great-review sharing and being […]
On Writing ONLY THE WOMEN ARE BURNING
It began under an elm tree at my pool. Like an explosion, this story burst onto the page with the words, “The women began to spontaneously ignite, bodies bursting into miniature mountains of flame across the suburban landscape…” I stared at these, my words. I mulled over them, fixated on them. They haunted me for […]
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