Tag: women writers
A WOMAN WRITER’S MANIFESTO
By Joan Steinau Lester When people ask me what do you do, for the last twenty-five years I’ve answered, “I’m a writer.” Sometimes I add, “An author.” If the questioner still looks blank, I’ll say, with authority, “I’m a professional writer.” I’ve learned to define myself in a powerful tone because so many people have […]
Secrets
The roots of secrets can go deep, making it difficult to unearth. It takes time, patience and determination. It means poring through old scrapbooks, scrolling through newspaper archives at libraries, looking through government records. You need to pick at painful memories, where loss can overshadow past joys. It is hard to keep a secret. Benjamin […]
How My Women’s Writing Group Vents Together Instead of Tearing Work to Shreds
When I started writing a novel based on the story of Cupid and Psyche, I fell apart. I completed a hundred pages that covered the Greco-Roman pantheon before realizing I needed to focus only on my one new Internet goddess. I showed my fiasco to a kind, well-intentioned reader who happened to have an obsession […]
Inspiration Behind AMONG THIEVES
Since the deal announcement for my debut novel went out a little over a year ago, I have legitimately lost count of how many times I have been asked what inspired me to write AMONG THIEVES. The super fun thing is that every time someone asks me this question, I suddenly forget every single word […]
Heeding the Call of a Mentor From the Past
By Robin Clifford Wood In 2008 when I began working on Rachel Field’s biography, I was 47 years old, just the age Rachel had reached when she died suddenly in 1942. I didn’t recognize the confluence of our ages back then, but now I believe the timing was no coincidence. Rachel Field was a renowned […]
ISABEL COSTELLO – (Writing) Each Book Is A Different Story
ISABEL COSTELLO – (Writing) each book is a different story I have written three novels over twelve years: one which got me an agent (as yet unpublished); my debut Paris Mon Amour (2016) and my new novel, Scent. Each has been a unique experience and part of a learning curve which will never end. I […]
LEMONS IN THE GARDEN: NOT FAMOUS ENOUGH
Forty years ago, I had a dream in which Blanche Ames told me to write her autobiography. I’d read about Blanche while I was working on a team to write a massive women’s history reference book, and of course her name caught my attention. Then I learned that Blanche was my grandmother’s aunt. How was […]
On Writing and Early Motherhood
On Writing and Early Motherhood ‘You’ll never have time to read.’ The first time I heard it, it sounded strange, remote from my life. The second, third times, it began to sink in. And there were more. ‘You’ll find it a challenge just to get through the day.’ ‘You’ll develop “mummy brain.”’ If you’ve ever […]
Authors Interviewing Characters : Loren Stephens
Loren Stephens is a published essayist, short story writer and president of two ghostwriting companies, Write Wisdom and Bright Star Memoirs, which she founded to help her client/authors write their memoirs, self-help books and novels. ALL SORROWS CAN BE BORNE published on May 11, 2021 by Rare Bird Books will be her first novel penned under her own name. […]
Art For the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives
By Whitney Otto I always knew that I would never write a traditional memoir or autobiography. I felt my life wasn’t eventful enough in any sort of significant way, which can be good in the real world, but can be something of a liability in the memoir world. Also, my favorite memoirs/autobiographies run along less […]
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