Tag: women writers
You Are Never Too Old to Follow Your Dream
By Beth Farrar When I was seventeen, my grandfather gave me a heavy, gold signet ring that belonged to his grandmother, and my love of family history was born. Though it had to share a seat with my obsession with reading and writing my own stories. Having five books on the go at the same […]
Why I Wrote Mostly Sober: A Love Story and a Road Trip? I Had To
By Susan Keller I was a daily drinker for decades. Not heavy, just a couple glasses of wine in the evening; but we now know that daily drinking is physically, mentally, and emotionally damaging. In fact, no amount of alcohol is healthful. Here’s a glimpse at my journey. In January, 2023, my husband, Dan, and […]
Embracing a Nonlinear Narrative Structure
When I set out to write a story about climate change, I got about fifty pages in and felt the spark sputter and die out. For the longest time, I sat there, watching the spiral of gray smoke. I had thought a solitary protagonist, Eleanor, could carry the story, crawling through the obstacle course of […]
How I Accidentally-on-Purpose Ended Up a Co-author, and You Can, Too!
By Tiffani Angus As writers, we tend to be solo workers, so to many of us, the idea of writing with someone else…? Bite your tongue! Being a co-author can be scary and mean losing things: a say in your story, power over what’s written, or even yourself under a pile of words you didn’t […]
June: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, June Reads are here, and I’m sharing from the mountains of North Carolina where the temperatures are cool and I’m wrapped in a blanket that says: Shhh…Rochelle is Reading. Do you have any summer plans? Mountains or beaches? Wherever you land, be sure to pack along some of these books. […]
Writer’s Block? Make Room for Beauty
My wildflower garden is audaciously misbehaved—thick and tall with noble yarrow and coreopsis where the sun shines brightest, slight with purple cornflower, blue flax, and red-pink Sweet William beneath the ledge of tree shade. Nothing uniform in this arrangement. The tallest flowers fall down. The rabbits sip at leggy stems as if they’re straws. The […]
BROKEN BAYOU by Jennifer Moorhead, EXCERPT
BROKEN BAYOU In this debut thriller, a troubled child psychologist returns to a small Louisiana town to protect her secrets but winds up having to protect her life. Dr. Willa Watters is a prominent child psychologist at the height of her career. But when a viral video of a disastrous television interview puts her reputation […]
Bringing My Heart Manuscript into the World
As an adult writer, my dream ambition was to write a multicultural romance between an English girl and an Iranian, because of my own personal connection to the story. But rather than having my fictitious couple settling in England, I wanted to have the majority of the story based in 1950s Iran. The idea was […]
Plot or Bust in 5 Easy Steps
by New York Times Bestselling author Marina Adair The feud between plotters and pantsers in the writing world is as old as that of the Hatfields and McCoys. I fall squarely on the side of the plotters, driven by the beauty between the spontaneity and creativity that falls within the framework of a structured story. […]
The Process of Writing My Memoir, by Penny Lane
I knew being a voracious lifelong reader did not necessarily make me a good writer. When I read the gorgeous prose of Arundhati Roy in “The God of Small Things,” I said to myself I can never write like that. My career had taught me to write short, concise, and to the point, but nothing […]
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