Tag: women writers
Finding your People
Finding Your People (when you might rather be hanging out with your characters) I am, fundamentally, an introvert. Many of the writers I know are. Alone at my desk, fingers on my laptop keys, I am happily absorbed, creating my characters and their world. However, there is another side to the writing life that I […]
Choose Your Path Books Pave The Way For Real-Life lessons
Choose Your Path books pave the way for real-life lessons By Deb Mercier Sometimes life seems out of our control. No checkout people at the till? Your next hour will be spent shuffle-walking through the mile-long line. Need to get out the door early? Too bad. Both dogs threw up and stomped through it, leaving […]
Memoir: Quenching The Thirst By Isidra Mencos
My introduction to writing memoir was random. I had read some memoirs and I liked them, but I’d always focused on writing fiction or academic essays. “Always” is an exaggeration. My commitment to writing was flimsy. I’d write in spurts, get a project done, and then spend years without scribbling even a note in a […]
Inspiration for Attribution by Linda Moore
Where do ideas come from? Original ideas, rare and precious, don’t happen often. Indeed, most ideas evolve from a collage of experiences, our own and those we hear or read about. Fiction writing or, if you prefer, storytelling offers a unique opportunity to mold a world of existing ideas into something new. Attribution began over a […]
On Writing Characters
Writing, like all art, is an act of creation and creation begins in the mind of the creator. My characters begin “life” as thoughts which I then expand upon bit by bit, layering personality and history onto them until I feel they are whole enough to have their own thoughts. It’s like a seed growing […]
How Hating My First Job Led to My Latest Book
Sara Bennett Wealer How Hating My First Job Led to My Latest Book My new young adult novel, GRAVE THINGS LIKE LOVE, takes place in a funeral home. Elaine, the main character, has grown up there, living on the top floors with her family, who run the business below. It’s a unique setting, and one […]
The Writing of Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine By Patricia Grayhall
The Writing of Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine By Patricia Grayhall February 2019 I take out the letters and journals in the file labeled Boston with shaky hands from the locked file cabinet in my closet. For forty years the letters from Dani lay unread because I couldn’t bear to look […]
The Inspiration behind One Last Gift
The Inspiration behind One Last Gift Like my debut novel, Always, in December, ONE LAST GIFT is a story that starts and ends at Christmas, though it spans the whole year. It’s also a story about grief, and about finding yourself in the wake of that grief. I sometimes get asked why I choose to […]
Lucy Banks: On Writing
Writing for me was always a hiding place. I grew up in a strange house with a turbulent family life, and writing was the one thing I could reliably turn to when I wanted to escape from the world. From an early age, I was fascinated with turning those troubling experiences into words. Somehow, by […]
Raquel V. Reyes, author of the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, interviews Alma Diaz, Miriam Quiñones’ BFF
Raquel V. Reyes, author of the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, interviews Alma Diaz, Miriam Quiñones’ BFF. About the book: CALYPSO, CORPSES, AND COOKING It’s time for a savory soirée—but something sinister is stewing—in Raquel V. Reyes’s second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala. Fall festivities are underway in Coral […]
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