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The Gap Between Intention and Execution
The book I intended to write was not the book I ended up writing. Oh, there are some similarities: I wanted to write a book about how we cannot truly process the environmental catastrophe that we are currently experiencing. I knew that I wanted the earth to send signals about this environmental catastrophe to my […]
Writing Into The White Heat
Dare you see a soul at the white heat? Is Emily Dickinson’s first line and title of her 1862 poem. The soul; a passion so intense it burns white, hotter than the fire itself. The passion, for me, is writing. My words when I get them on the page are unfinished, they are imperfect, they […]
Creating a New Home for Readers—and Myself
Many years ago, while writing my first novel, Each Vagabond by Name, I obsessed over every detail of character and story, making sure I got everything exactly right. I spent weeks researching a backstory for bartender Ramsy, ensuring that the way he was injured in the Vietnam War was realistic, moving, and thematically significant. I […]
Resistance Is Life: On Writing and Resiliency
Resistance Is Life: On Writing and Resiliency Ava Homa on What Statelessness, Trauma, and Political Exile Have Taught Her as a Writer By Ava Homa Coming of age as a Kurdish girl in Iran, I learned early on that my being alive was an act of subversion. I belong to a people who have been subject to […]
Inspiration for A Taste of Sage By Yaffa S. Santos
We are living in times where many of us could use the perfect distraction. Times where many of us are returning to the kitchen to experiment, or possibly doing it for the first time. Times when there are many days when all we could use is a fun, romantic story and a laugh. None of […]
WRITE LIKE NOBODY’S JUDGING: THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME AND HOW I FIGHT IT
Unless you’re some kind of a narcissist, you have at some point or the other heard a little voice within yourself going, “Psst! You don’t have what it takes to do what you’re doing. You’re a fraud and everyone knows it!” Call it what you will – your inner critic, plain underconfidence or its fancy […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Joanna Briscoe
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Joanna Briscoe Joanna Briscoe interviews Beth Penn, the protagonist of her new novel, The Seduction The Seduction is a dark, tense story of a woman who goes to see a therapist. The therapist is there to help, but turns out to be the most dangerous person of all. Beth, an artist, […]
Beneath The Fig Leaves: An Excerpt
As a child, books fascinated me; intrigued by their stories I often slipped into their world. If words and stories could make me feel so many different things, then I, too, wanted to write, to make others feel the same sense of excitement and wonder. My curiosity and imagination were relentless, as far as I […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: LAUREN HO
Lauren Ho chats with her protagonist, Andrea Tang of LAST TANG STANDING, to find out what makes her tick. Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one’s thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love. Lauren: Hi Andrea so good of you to– Andrea: […]
How Writing Groups Can Help Develop Your Writing
The published writers I know have one thing in common. They’ve all worked for years to become overnight successes. It’s often difficult to see through their thousands of sales and glowing reviews, but behind it all there’s usually years of blood, sweat and tears. When people ask me what makes a successful writer, I always […]
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