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A Letter To My Unpublished Self
Dear Andie, Wow, who knew writing a letter to your unpublished self would be so hard? I’m feeling many things as I sit at my computer and think back on your life as an unpublished writer. Immediately I’m tearing up, and there’s a lump in my throat. Why? Because little one, the next ten years […]
Behind Every Lie – Finding Beauty in the Broken By: Christina McDonald
I wrote Behind Every Lie in the aftermath of the news story about Chanel Miller (known at the time as Emily Doe), who was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner at Stanford University. Like many around the world, I was profoundly moved by her victim impact statement. After reading it I thought, ‘How do you go […]
Acting And Writing
Tina Sloan is best known for her twenty-six-year role on CBS’s soap The Guiding Light and as the author of Changing Shoes: Getting Older – Not Old – with Style, Humor and Grace based on her autobiographical one-woman show. The Changing Shoes book release coincided with the launch of the show in New York, which went on to grace stages across […]
Writing and Sex, by Sande Boritz Berger
When I first began writing on the cusp of becoming a teen, sex was never a subject matter of either my poetry or short stories, nor was the three-letter word mentioned in my reading material at the time- the 1950’s. I was a naïve, though dedicated fan of the popular female sleuths, Nancy Drew and […]
One Dangerous Liberty
We who write stories are damn brave. We spin out people with whom we live in almost every moment of our lives. We create their world. They create ours. We take them places. They take us. We live with them, fuss over them, argue with them, let ourselves be surprised by them. We dive into […]
On Inspiration
Inspiration – there is no such thing as ‘standard’ but that’s okay Inspiration is defined as ‘the process of being mentally stimulated to do something, especially something creative’ and ‘someone or something giving you the idea to do something’; which leaves you with an extremely broad scope for where ideas can come from. This can […]
Writing And Performing A TEDX Talk
Do you dream about a TEDxTalk? Go inside the process of writing and performing a TED Talk with author Polo Tate At the time of my TEDxTALK audition, I had a birds-eye view of what I had hoped would be a majestic “idea worth spreading.” I wanted to talk about how to find true fulfilment in life—something poignant that took me an […]
Writers And Cats
Ernest Hemingway, a lifelong ailurophile (or cat fancier), wrote “one cat just leads to another,” and he knew what he was talking about. What could be a more natural companion animal for an author than a cat? Many writers and felines keep odd hours, often prefer solitude over socializing, and are known to become “testy” […]
My Raging Doubt
Sometimes, just for fun, I torture myself with existential questions like this: which personal fact contributes most to my raging self-doubt, being a writer or being a recovering Midwesterner? (I can’t even throw being a mother into the mix or my head will explode.) But here is another possibility: my penchant for over-analyzing and occasionally […]
Jumping into the Deep End
When I was an elfin five-year-old with a pixie cut, without asking permission or telling anyone, I jumped off the diving board into the deep end of a pool in Arizona. The teenage lifeguard immediately dove in and rescued me. I clearly recall feeling offended—I hadn’t needed rescuing! I’d had some lessons and I could […]
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