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How My Children Inspire My Writing – Samantha King
When I start writing a new book, I begin not with a plot idea, but a feeling – a vivid, compelling emotion that I have either experienced myself, or can imagine my characters experiencing. For me, two of the strongest are fear and yearning: yearning to become or to find something; and, set alongside that, […]
The Forgotten Home Child
For the past ten years or so, I have made it my mission to learn as much as I can about Canadian history. Back then, I was as surprised about my own enthusiasm for the subject as my high school history teacher would have been. After all, I had slept through most of those classes, […]
Keeping Going
Like so many writers, my journey to publication was long and winding. I love telling the story because it’s the kind of story that would have given me hope back then, in my trying-to-get-published years. It started with an MA in Creative Writing in 2004. Of course, it started long before that, really, with an […]
Women Need To Write About Sex
By Heather M. First, I should disclose that I am an artist and writer that has spent the last five years creating art with a purpose. And that purpose is to engage people with thoughts, ideas, and perspectives of how female identifying individuals engage in sex and sexuality. It is my personal belief that women […]
Best Friends In Books
There are many books filled with stories about diabolical women and how vicious they can be to each other. I read these books, and I find them fascinating. However, I started thinking about other books I’ve read through the years where women’s friendships were the central theme. The two that immediately came to mind were […]
Search Heartache: Carla Malden
Raised in Los Angeles, Carla Malden began her career working in motion picture production and development before becoming a screenwriter. Along with her father, Academy Award–winning actor Karl Malden, she coauthored his critically acclaimed memoir, When Do I Start?. More recently, Malden published AfterImage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of A Charmed Life, a fiercely personal account of battling […]
How My Grandmother Inspired My Writing
Growing up, I was very close to my grandmother. Some of my earliest memories are of the Friday nights we spent at my grandparents’ home for Shabbat dinner, the Jewish sabbath. This was a weekly tradition. We lit the candles and said the prayers over the wine and challah. Our dinners consisted of a four-course […]
COMING OF AGE: A Mature Writer Adapting In The 21st Century
We’ve all been asked this question as we progress through time: What do you want to be when you grow up? No matter who asked, no matter what stage of life I was in, I always had the same answer: to be a published author. Armed with that infatuation, I never faltered or changed my […]
Consequences of Truth-Telling: Self-Censorship in Memoir
Consequences of Truth-Telling: Self-Censorship in Memoir Memoirists tell the truth. Whether it’s about abuse, the trials of parenting, sex, or marital conundrums, we tell the truth without inhibitions. At least, that’s the rule. That’s the goal. The fact that people will read your truth is a whole other concern that is most disconcerting to memoir […]
Calming My Demons: How Writing My Novel Unexpectedly Helped My Recovery
Ten years ago, I quit my job, sold the house and left the country. I was moving to France where, I decided, I would become a writer. This was despite a distinct lack of evidence that I had the skill, notwithstanding (or perhaps entirely exemplified by) the heartfelt journals, enthusiastic attempts at poetry and first […]
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