Tag: women writers
Vulnerability in Your Writing and Why it Matters
by Marina DelVecchio After reading Unsexed: Memoirs of a Prostitute’s Daughter, a friend told me I was brave to write it, followed by, “Don’t you feel vulnerable, writing about your life?” Many conversations I have had with women in the past few years have brought up similar issues with truth-telling: how much of our truth […]
My Transformation from Blogger to Author
By Rachel Valencourt I’ve always been a bit of a book nerd. Back in my journalism school days, I was convinced I’d end up as a writer. But you know how life goes—one minute you’re dreaming big, and the next, you’re just trying to juggle the work-life balance while wondering if you remembered to feed […]
Writing God Bless The Child
The women in God Bless the Child have been tangled up in knots since I first created them nearly two decades ago. Bringing them back out into the light for a fresh look with older eyes and a wiser heart has led even their creator to marvel and wince anew at the raw ferocity that […]
How I Wrote We Are Family by Louise Walters
Like all my novels, it’s rather difficult to describe how I wrote We Are Family. I don’t actually remember writing much of it… sometimes my novels just seem to appear, to grow… 20,000 words… 40,000 words… I do remember how this one started, though. Circa 2007: I was taking a creative writing course as part […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Kay Stephens
DAUGHTER OF THE LOST When the freshman party ends, the sophomore hangover hits. Trinity Tachel has no use for society’s rules. Not after the New Orleans police failed to investigate the murder of her sex-worker mother. Not after she was abandoned to the Louisiana foster care system as a child. And certainly not after fighting […]
Deborah L. King: On Writing
I was a fantastic liar as a child. For years I told people that four fingers on each hand were smashed and broken by a heavy window that I attempted to close when I was four years old. I told how I removed the screwdriver that held the window up. I described the pain and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sarah Lariviere
Sarah Lariviere, Riot Act (Knopf / Random House, July 16, 2024) Sarah Lariviere’s debut novel, The Bad Kid, was an Edgar Award finalist. In the first book in her new YA series, Riot Act (Knopf / Random House, July 2024), an alternative history set in 1991 in an authoritarian America, theater kids in central Illinois […]
Writing Stories with Larger Meanings and Goals
By Sharon J. Wishnow On August 29, 2021 Hurricane Ida, a massive 150 mph category 4 storm slammed into Grand isle, Louisiana. Twelve hundred miles north in my home in Northern Virginia, I wept. Stories that move us and remain with us are the ones where we feel an emotional connection to the characters and […]
Choosing Your People By Rhett DeVane
By Rhett DeVane Friendships became vital during the pandemic. Now, as we crawl from our hideouts to physically interact, those connections are just as crucial. Recently, as I thought about the underlying themes in my novel Ditch Weed, two stood out: the importance of both heart-family and intragenerational friendships. I discovered these common threads not […]
Reasons to Love Developmental Editing
By Martha Carlson Developmental editing of fiction is work that brings me joy. Writers come to me with questions and uncertainty, and I use my experience, education, and training to bring them clarity and to recharge their enthusiasm for revising their work. I love hearing clients respond to my editing by saying “I have a […]
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