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I’m a Story Scavenger…Are You? by Barbara Josselsohn
Three summers ago, while vacationing in Sonoma, California, my family and I went to Jack London State Historic Park. We were looking to do some good hiking, and we’d been told they had some great trails. We first entered the visitor center to get a map and our bearings. I almost didn’t make it back […]
How I Became a Serial Memoirist by Lisa Cheek
I didn’t know much about memoirs when I decided to write one. But what I did know – I was a serial storyteller. Being a film editor for twenty-five years, I told hundreds of stories through film. Most were only thirty seconds while some were full ninety minute features. Many of them comedies, my favorite […]
On Writing ONLY GIRLS BLEED by Elaine Lawless
I took it personally when the Supreme Court eliminated the federal right to abortion in the United States on June 22, 2022. Not because I had ever had or needed an abortion, or thought I might become pregnant again, but because for fifty years, I had, like all women in my country, assumed I was […]
Staying Still By Hannah Adams
As a yoga teacher, I often say to my students, as they arrive in the fifth or sixth downward-facing dog of the class, that they have never done this downward dog before, and they will never do it again. Their task is to be still with it, to experience themselves within the pose, and to […]
It’s a Dog’s Life by Leslie Kain
I hadn’t had a dog in my life since Maddie, the golden retriever that grew up with my kids. But after my husband and I recently said goodbye to our eighteen-year-old cat Sheba (who’d become blind, and sat beside me in my writing chair, often walking on my keyboard), it was time to again welcome […]
From New Zealand To Perfectville: The Inspiration Behind My Novel By Yvonne Eve Walus
When my husband and I moved to New Zealand nearly thirty years ago, I fell in love with things that people born here often took for granted. The beaches. The green grass. The sense that children could disappear outside for hours and return muddy, tired and happy. New Zealand felt safe and orderly. It felt […]
The Ultimate Traitor: Background Story by Kathryn Gauci
I was drawn to writing a story about France’s worst serial killer of the 20th– Century, Dr Marcel Petiot, after watching a documentary about him. Writing novels set in WWII France, I was amazed that I had not heard of him before and the more I uncovered, the more astounding his story was. The German […]
Do I Really Want to Rewrite this? By Jane Wilson-Howarth
Way back in 2007, I was fortunate enough to see the publication, by Peir 9 in Australia, of my memoir A Glimpse of Eternal Snows. I’d been working on it off-and-on for 12 years. In essence the book was about David, our middle son who was born with various medical challenges including holes in his […]
Getting Past Stuck: Writing Flow Through Tarot and Improv by Jane Brookwood
Do you ever get stuck in the writing? You have a plan, you know where your characters need to be and how they’re going to get there, but suddenly the action feels flat, the dialogue uninspired, or you simply don’t know where to go next. A stall can sometimes feel like a brick wall, and […]
On Choosing Book Titles by Suzanne Trauth
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose…or is it? “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare was undoubtedly onto something here… though Mark Twain conceded that “names are not always what they seem.” Do the same sentiments apply to book titles? Those […]
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