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Fiction is a Lie That Reveals the Truth
Why do we care about fiction? Isn’t the actual, physical world interesting enough? I was forced to think about this recently when I participated in an author panel with astrophysicist Adam Frank (Light of the Stars) and journalist Peter Lovenheim (The Attachment Effect). Given the company I was keeping, it suddenly seemed prudent to ask, […]
Writing Indescribable
How do I begin to write the story of my childhood sexual abuse, how do I find the words to explain the indescribable situation my eight-year-old self-adapted to and compartmentalised at such a young age? Why was I compelled to write the ugliness of what happened to me? Shouldn’t I have left it silently awake […]
Coping: An Author’s Chat With A Character
Author Lynn Goodwin chats to her book character Sandee Mason. Dear Sandee Mason, I am so sorry our publisher gave up. I loved your story and I know you did too. You were always my favorite character. You let me know your opinions. Shared them without hesitation. Loved your streaks of maturity, your aspirations, and […]
Do Sales Equal Success?
What does success look like? Sometimes, I think as authors, one of the main ways we calculate our success is based on the sales of our books. It’s instant validation. Who doesn’t want that? But is that the best way to define what success is as an author? I don’t think so. See the problem […]
Becoming Good Friends with Fear
Fear and I have been acquaintances for some time, but I only recently decided to become good friends with fear. In 2014 I was laid off from my day job. After much reflection, I decided to pursue a path that was both new and frightening to me. I gave away most of my material goods […]
From Prison Manager To Author
I wrote ‘The Handbook for Highly Sensitive People’ to help HSPs to thrive rather than just survive in this non-sensitive world. One in five or 1.4 billion people globally have the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity. I am one of them, but for the first thirty-two years of my life I didn’t know about […]
Faith in fiction
Every year around Thanksgiving, well-meaning articles suddenly appear warning folks not to discuss politics or religion at the table if they want to keep the holiday meal friendly. Is the same true when writing fiction? If we want our stories to have wide appeal, perhaps we’re better off staying away from these contentious subjects as […]
When You Don’t Have Time To Write
“I don’t have time to write” is my least favorite mantra, one that I’ve so often heard from lapsed and would-be writers. I used to chant it a lot to myself, and the more I repeated it the more I believed it. It became an immutable fact of life – until an unlikely situation shifted […]
Writing For Transformation And Bliss
In late 2017, my book, Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life was published, and the response to it has been excellent. As a result, I decided to create a companion journal and this was just released on January 1st, 2019. Developed for the seasoned storyteller as well […]
Writing the Hard Stuff: Seven Things You Need to Know
Tell me if you can relate to this: You’re deep into your writing and everyone else in the house is asleep, even the dog. You’re crying as you type, wiping at your face in order to see the computer screen, unwilling to leave your keyboard to get a tissue. In fact, you’re so completely in […]
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