Tag: women writers
Janet Hoggarth: Where I find the spark
Every book or article I have ever written has sprung from something else entirely. Several other ideas can be on the boil at the same time before I finally commit to writing a specific book. I will have written their rough synopsis (I never know the ending just the general direction), delved into the characters’ […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sarah Steele
Sarah Steele is the author of THE MISSING PIECES OF Nancy Moon, in which Flo Connelly recreates a vintage wardrobe from a box of 1962 dress patterns, and travels around Europe to find out what happened to the woman who originally made them. Sarah originally trained as a classical musician, and before writing this, her debut novel, she was […]
The Seed of My Memoir in a Glass of Pinot and a Prompt By Gretchen Cherington
At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents’ well-crafted family myths while continuing to silence her own voice? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth–even the […]
How Writing My First Novel Prepared Me To Write My Debut Novel
As of today, August 4th 2020, I am a published novelist. My debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress, is a work of historical fiction about Lydia Robinson, the real older woman who had an affair with Branwell Bronte, the Bronte sisters’ brother. It was released by Atria Books. Yet every time someone congratulates me on the publication […]
Road To Publication: Julie Pennell
Road to publication: Julie Pennell When I was a little girl, I was always busy writing stories for my parents who were the type of fans who would always give me a five-star review no matter what the content (thanks, Mom and Dad!) It wasn’t until I entered a short story fiction contest for a […]
CHARACTER INTERVIEWS: LAURA JAMISON
ALL THE RIGHT MISTAKES (on sale 8/4, She Writes Press) is an uplit novel about the relatable messiness of adult friendship and life ambitions by Laura Jamison, in the vein of Camille Pagán’s I’m Fine and Neither Are You and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It. Five Dartmouth college friends are all approaching forty at various points […]
From Idea To Finished Novel: Writing Research For A Paris Secret
For most novelists the first blank page can be a terrifying prospect. How does one complete one hundred thousand words before arriving at the last magic phrase, the end? Even with a strong synopsis, something my publisher insists upon, it is still a daunting task. For me, it is a matter of really pushing myself […]
Tactical Communication: The Difference Between Fiction and Reality
By Micki Browning Law enforcement officers receive a tremendous amount of training throughout their careers–my police academy alone was 852 hours. But if popular culture is to be believed, the only training cops use consists of driving (fast), shooting (weapons that never needed reloading), defensive tactics (often outnumbered and sustaining nary a scrape), and how […]
Excercise And Writing, How Does It Compare?
As part-time Les Mills Body Combat Instructor and the author of Two scoops, not Three, I feel I have worked hard to be able to do the two things that I love. And interestingly, I have used similar methods for both exercise and writing. I started writing my debut novel – Two scoops, not Three […]
Why My Readers Inspire Me
Writers are complex individuals; we are inspired by many different things. The world around us is a constant source of stimulation and we derive our ideas from people, places, current events, influences from our own lives. But if you ask a writer the question who do you write for, the answer will often be ‘I […]
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