Tag: women writers
A Sentimental Hoarder and Her Accidental Memoir By Erin O’Malley
Progress doesn’t happen in a straight line—and neither did writing my book. It started with a letter. Back in 2014, a new Lusitano website advertised a launching competition. The grand prize: a week at a Portuguese hacienda called Herdade Pero Viegas, with daily riding lessons from working equitation pro Nuno Jose Avelar. To enter, you […]
Why We Wrote Miss You Already
Miss You Already began with a conversation neither of us expected to have. When Staci received a stage four lung cancer diagnosis, everything changed. We found ourselves trying to hold fear, hope, uncertainty, love, and everyday life all at once. We were not only confronting what might happen in the future. We were grieving even the […]
Translating Letters While Keeping the Correspondent’s Voice Intact
Ruth Zelig on writing Letters from Brazil, Reflections on Migration and Friendship In order to write my epistolary memoir Letters from Brazil, Reflections on Migration and Friendship, I needed to translate 100 letters I received from a friend in Brazil, written in Portuguese, and mailed over the course of twenty years. I saved that correspondence […]
Whose shoulders am I standing on? by Mary Wine
My life is great. Seriously packed full of opportunities. When I get up in the morning, I see doors, that I have the freedom, the right, to knock on. Getting through those doors is often challenging, making me dig down deep for my bulldog determination but there isn’t a law forbidding me from taking my […]
Writing “High Five Your Spirit Guides” by Katherine Marie
No one was more surprised that I wrote the spiritual self-help book High Five Your Spirit Guides than I was. In fact, if someone had told me ten years ago that I would not only write but also publish and market a non-fiction book about using intuition, finding connection, and experiencing guidance, I probably would […]
Characters Interviewing Authors: Mimi Wahlfeldt
DARE After Jewel Diamond, 28, wakes in the ER with no memory of the trauma that brought her there, she must face the many ways her life will change. Bearing a hideous scar on her cheek that affects her speech, Jewel’s instinct is to isolate and withdraw into her sadness. As memories of the incident […]
Memoir Can Be a Time Capsule by Sharon Dukett
I spent many years writing a memoir. Back when I started in the 1980s, I didn’t even know what to call it. I wrote several chapters on lined paper in cursive because I didn’t own a computer yet. I had a typewriter, but based on my typing skills, I would never complete a book unless […]
Writing Aside: How I Spend My Time Between Projects by Donna Carbone
I retired from full time teaching in June–my other full time job when I’m not writing. For the past five years, I’ve been anticipating this decision to tip the scale toward writing more and teaching less. True to my nature as an organized plotter, I meticulously outline my writing at the onset, always knowing full […]
Welcome the Truth When Writing Fiction—Just Brace Yourself
By Catherine Marshall-Smith My novel, The Resilience of Red Thread, tells the story of a woman escaping an abusive relationship—and the essential role female friendship plays in making that happen. Writing it required deep research: interviews with social workers, time in family court, listening to survivors, and studying case files. It was inspiring but often […]
An Imagined Interview Between Meryl Branch-McTiernan and the Fictional Dr. Melfi from The Sopranos
A Conversation between the Writer and Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi Me: Hi Dr. Melfi… Jennifer? Dr. Melfi: Dr. Melfi is fine. Me: I’m thrilled you were willing to come out of retirement after—what—nearly twenty years, to work with me. Dr. Melfi: What brings you to therapy? Me: I’m having trouble deciding what to […]
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