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Asking Questions, Finding Community
“You ask the best questions,” Kristy Woodson Harvey exclaimed, if you’ll lend me the liberty of saying people can exclaim via email. Working at home as a writer can be a lonely business, and I’ll take human contact and emotion in any form I can get some days! But through the beautiful world of the […]
The Secret Ingredient of Wishes: A Conversation with Susan Bishop Crispell
The Secret Ingredient of Wishes by Susan Bishop Crispell transports readers to a Nowhere, NC, where wishes appear on a breeze and pies have secret powers to influence more than a diner’s waistline. The touching magic illuminates the choices we make in matters of the heart, while we watch Rachel Monroe learn what it takes […]
Q&A with Gayle Forman
Gayle Forman is the Young Adult author of the #1 New York Times bestseller IF I STAY, and an executive producer and writer on the hit 2014 film version. She is also the author of its New York Times bestselling sequel WHERE SHE WENT, as well as JUST ONE DAY, JUST ONE YEAR, and the […]
How a Smartphone Camera Can Jumpstart Your Writing
Both the camera and creative writing offer us a lens into our humanity. Every story is a snapshot of a time, place or person, and every photo has a story to tell. For me, photography and writing have always gone hand in hand. They are the push and pull of my daily routine, the way I […]
May The Story Sing
When I sign copies of my debut novel, The River Witch, I almost always say, “May the story sing for you.” I’ve never stopped to really wonder why those words came to me or what they might mean, except that I have a love of music. While I was on book tour, I asked the […]
Time Management For Writers
It’s 7.07 on a Monday morning. I have just got on a train to Plymouth where I’m going to be interviewed (live!) by the BBC. I could be reading the novel that’s in my handbag. Or I could be catching up on my sleep after an early start. But instead my fingers are flying across […]
When To Call It Quits
Starting a fresh manuscript is always an exciting thing for me. The possibility of the blank page. An idea that makes my heart beat faster. Characters chattering away in my head, telling me their stories. Those are the moments I want to hole myself up in a cabin in the woods, just me and my […]
The Language of Sisters: A Conversation with Cathy Lamb
In Cathy Lamb’s beautiful new novel, The Language of Sisters , she weaves together a tale of family, following sisters, Toni, Valerie, and Ellie Kozlovsky, as they grapple with their family’s past in the Soviet Union and their own futures. The Kozlovsky sisters find the power of love to carry them through, and readers will […]
Writing About Online Bullying
In the summer of 2014, I was equally deep into freelance writing as mothering. This meant that my days started at the crack of dawn, coffee in hand, typing fingers at the ready. I kept my stature as still and as quiet as possible, not out of pristine habits, but out of fear of waking […]
Don’t Kill Your Darlings, Set Them Free
For writers, often the most frightening advice we receive is to “kill our darlings”¾to cut loose those Hope diamonds that, while gorgeous, are sinking the boat we’re trying to steer to shore¾the beautiful opening sentence that doesn’t tie in whatsoever with the opening paragraph (or the rest of the story), the intense supporting character who […]
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