Tag: women writers
WRITE LIKE NOBODY’S JUDGING: THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME AND HOW I FIGHT IT
Unless you’re some kind of a narcissist, you have at some point or the other heard a little voice within yourself going, “Psst! You don’t have what it takes to do what you’re doing. You’re a fraud and everyone knows it!” Call it what you will – your inner critic, plain underconfidence or its fancy […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Joanna Briscoe
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Joanna Briscoe Joanna Briscoe interviews Beth Penn, the protagonist of her new novel, The Seduction The Seduction is a dark, tense story of a woman who goes to see a therapist. The therapist is there to help, but turns out to be the most dangerous person of all. Beth, an artist, […]
Beneath The Fig Leaves: An Excerpt
As a child, books fascinated me; intrigued by their stories I often slipped into their world. If words and stories could make me feel so many different things, then I, too, wanted to write, to make others feel the same sense of excitement and wonder. My curiosity and imagination were relentless, as far as I […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: LAUREN HO
Lauren Ho chats with her protagonist, Andrea Tang of LAST TANG STANDING, to find out what makes her tick. Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one’s thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love. Lauren: Hi Andrea so good of you to– Andrea: […]
How Writing Groups Can Help Develop Your Writing
The published writers I know have one thing in common. They’ve all worked for years to become overnight successes. It’s often difficult to see through their thousands of sales and glowing reviews, but behind it all there’s usually years of blood, sweat and tears. When people ask me what makes a successful writer, I always […]
NURTURING THE WRITING SPIRIT
by RJ Thesman When I taught English as a Second Language, my class was filled with post docs, brilliant scholars with multiple PhDs in science and medicine. One Chinese doctor specialized in the research of cancer modalities. He regularly harvested rats, collected data and reported his findings to the university. But his English was broken. […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Donna Hermans
Donna Hemans interviews Plum, who, in her novel, Tea by the Sea, spends seventeen years searching the daughter taken from her at birth. Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Plum Valentine. I live in Brooklyn with my husband and two daughters, and work as a lab technologist. Tell us a little about […]
Kimberly Belle: 5 Things I’ve Learned From Writing Through A Global Pandemic
As an author of domestic suspense novels, I like to think that my premises are firmly grounded in reality. A cheating spouse. A missing child. Friendships turned lethal. Open any newspaper or scroll through Facebook, and you’ll find stories much like mine, tragedies that can—and do—happen all too often in the world. It’s why I […]
From Premise To Publication – Writing The Sight Of You
The idea for The Sight Of You first came to me around a dinner table with friends, where we were debating that familiar-albeit-slightly-morbid question, If you could find out the date you were going to die, would you want to know? I was fascinated by how quickly and definitively the table split between Definitely, yes, […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Mary Helen Fein
Conversation Helen Breakstone, Sixteen-year-old heroine of “Stitching a Life,” and author Mary Helen Fein Helen and I met at Katz’s Deli on Houston Street in New York’s Lower East Side. Turned out we both love Pastrami sandwiches, and of course Katz’s is the best. It was easy to spot her in her long skirt and […]
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