Tag: women writers
Keep Writing Until They Are Forced to Say Yes
Keep Writing Until They Are Forced to Say Yes I got a late start as a writer. I was an avid reader, sure, but write a book? Never crossed my mind until I was in my 50s and had a story to tell. I’d never so much as taken a writing class, but one frozen […]
Book Origins and the Ongoing Journey
Book Origins and the Ongoing Journey By Beth Fisher-Yoshida New Story, New Power: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiation, took a few years to research and write, but it was a lifetime in the making. I have been working in the area of negotiation for more than 30 years, with its origins in my experience in intercultural communications. […]
Confessions of a Currently Failed Novelist
Confessions of a Currently Failed Novelist By Sandra Hutchison I haven’t written a word of fiction for over a year now, except for some half-hearted editing of a romantic comedy that ought to have been released a year ago and still hasn’t been. That’s because the ending needs a little work, in theory. In reality, […]
Generational Dynamics: Story DNA
Generational Dynamics: Story DNA There have been stretches in my creative life when family and career commitments demanded most of my available time and attention. At those moments I imagined my writing life as a river, sometimes ebbing and sometimes swelling, swirling around other demands and obligations—personal, professional, familial. But also like a river, always […]
Why do we need Older Characters in Books?
Why do we need older characters in books? One of the joys of reading is when you can relate to a character and feel as though you could be best friends with them. I loved reading rom-coms in my twenties and thirties with fun female characters navigating the dating scene. However, as I reached my […]
A Writing Life: Ronna Wineberg
A Writing Life I’m a fiction writer and sometimes I’m asked about my writing life. The question has caused me to think about my writing process and what a writing life entails. My writing life consists of different parts: writing, submitting work, creating books, publicizing a new book, giving readings, building community, and reading literature. […]
Down the Rabbit Hole for The Emerald Necklace by Linda Rosen
Down the Rabbit Hole for The Emerald Necklace by Linda Rosen Several years ago, I was at a party at a historic house in Delray Beach, Florida. It’s nooks and crannies, narrow hallways, and cozy rooms called to me. I wasn’t sure how I was going to use the two-story home, built in 1923, in […]
From Pantser to Planner
A writerly evolution by Gillian Harvey Like many writers, I have always been in a hurry to get words to paper. An idea will come to me and I’ll need to rush to the nearest post-it post-haste. Until recently, when writing novels, if the muse took over, I had no time to make plans, create […]
Clay-Writer Turned Creativity Evangelist
Clay-Writer Turned Creativity Evangelist Several years ago, my husband dubbed me a “clay-writer”. “You sculpt with words and write in clay,” he elaborated. His description referenced the fact I was a potter and enjoyed sculpting vignettes out of polymer clay (think Sculpey or Fimo vinyl plastic clay which can be baked in the oven.) At […]
Jessica K. Foster interviews Andy and Lucas from Andy and the Extroverts
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jessica K. Foster interviews Andy and Lucas from Andy and the Extroverts Andy and the Extroverts Seventeen-year-old Andy Stevens has no friends. She’d rather chew rusty nails than talk to anyone ever since her bestie ditched her freshman year. Her oblivious mom has the audacity to pack her up and send her […]
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