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How Writer’s Block Enriched My Life
Every writer experiences some form of writer’s block. For some, it’s the inability to come up with a topic to write about at all, even though they desperately want to write something. For others, it’s the blank next-page, not knowing where to go next in the midst of a piece that was moving along but […]
Improving Writing Productivity Amid a Pandemic
Damyanti Biswas lives in Singapore, and supports Delhi’s underprivileged women and children, volunteering with organisations who work for this cause. Her short stories have been published in magazines in the US, UK, and Asia, and she helps edit the Forge Literary Magazine. Her novel You Beneath Your Skin will be free between 7th and 11th August […]
Janet Hoggarth: Where I find the spark
Every book or article I have ever written has sprung from something else entirely. Several other ideas can be on the boil at the same time before I finally commit to writing a specific book. I will have written their rough synopsis (I never know the ending just the general direction), delved into the characters’ […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sarah Steele
Sarah Steele is the author of THE MISSING PIECES OF Nancy Moon, in which Flo Connelly recreates a vintage wardrobe from a box of 1962 dress patterns, and travels around Europe to find out what happened to the woman who originally made them. Sarah originally trained as a classical musician, and before writing this, her debut novel, she was […]
The Seed of My Memoir in a Glass of Pinot and a Prompt By Gretchen Cherington
At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents’ well-crafted family myths while continuing to silence her own voice? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth–even the […]
How Writing My First Novel Prepared Me To Write My Debut Novel
As of today, August 4th 2020, I am a published novelist. My debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress, is a work of historical fiction about Lydia Robinson, the real older woman who had an affair with Branwell Bronte, the Bronte sisters’ brother. It was released by Atria Books. Yet every time someone congratulates me on the publication […]
Road To Publication: Julie Pennell
Road to publication: Julie Pennell When I was a little girl, I was always busy writing stories for my parents who were the type of fans who would always give me a five-star review no matter what the content (thanks, Mom and Dad!) It wasn’t until I entered a short story fiction contest for a […]
CHARACTER INTERVIEWS: LAURA JAMISON
ALL THE RIGHT MISTAKES (on sale 8/4, She Writes Press) is an uplit novel about the relatable messiness of adult friendship and life ambitions by Laura Jamison, in the vein of Camille Pagán’s I’m Fine and Neither Are You and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It. Five Dartmouth college friends are all approaching forty at various points […]
From Idea To Finished Novel: Writing Research For A Paris Secret
For most novelists the first blank page can be a terrifying prospect. How does one complete one hundred thousand words before arriving at the last magic phrase, the end? Even with a strong synopsis, something my publisher insists upon, it is still a daunting task. For me, it is a matter of really pushing myself […]
Tactical Communication: The Difference Between Fiction and Reality
By Micki Browning Law enforcement officers receive a tremendous amount of training throughout their careers–my police academy alone was 852 hours. But if popular culture is to be believed, the only training cops use consists of driving (fast), shooting (weapons that never needed reloading), defensive tactics (often outnumbered and sustaining nary a scrape), and how […]
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