Tag: women writers
My Experiences Writing and Publishing as a Teen
For me, the biggest difference between writing as a teen and as an adult is being able to write how teenagers think, what it’s like to be in school, because you’re not looking at it through rose-tinted glasses, looking back on it with nostalgia; you don’t have to remember what it was like, you’re still […]
Happiness in the Time of Covid-19, Climate Change, Violent White Supremacy, etc.
Perhaps surprisingly, a season of unrelentingly grim news is the perfect time for a serious discussion of both personal and collective happiness. That is because genuine happiness is the opposite of a self-indulgent quest for pleasure. Rather, deep inner happiness leads to thriving, performing at our best, and greater compassion – along with a much-needed […]
The-It’s-Never-Too-Late Edition: Publishing A Debut Novel At 79
By Anne Oman, author of MANGO RAINS (published by Galaxy Galloper Press) To make life complete, you’re supposed to bear a child, plant a tree, and write a book. Not sure who said that. It’s been attributed to the Talmud, Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti, an obscure Czech poet, and maybe even Mark Twain and Yogi […]
AREN’T YOU FORGETTING SOMEONE? Excerpt
Kari Lizer is a gifted comedic storyteller. She is an Emmy-nominated, co-executive producer and writer for Will & Grace and creator of the award-winning show, The New Adventures of Old Christine, which was based on her life as a single working mother raising three kids. Lizer recently signed with ABC for her new comedy series, […]
The Antidote for Us Versus Them
Hoax! On my screen was what looked like a painted daguerreotype family portrait from an era when people lived in hand-hewn log cabins, raised shoats, and wore dresses sewn from potato sacks, but what made this portrait surely a work of trickery was the color of the complexion of five family members: bright, shocking, no-doubt-about-it […]
When Writing Flows (Or Doesn’t!) by Phaedra Patrick
Before I got a publishing deal for my novels, I had an image in my head of what writers did all day and how they looked. They wore a satin robe, drank copious amounts of wine and often smoked long slim cigarettes. They lived in their heads, in a kind of serene wonderland where magical […]
An Intangible Legacy By Meera Ekkanath Klein
An Intangible Legacy By Meera Ekkanath Klein My family’s past is shrouded in legend, myth and history. That’s because my lineage comes from the ancient matrilineal tradition, once prevalent in the southern state of Kerala in India. Now, it is a fading memory, barely remembered. The origin of this venerable tradition is the stuff of […]
Unexpected Friendship: Barbara Monier
In my fourth novel, The Rocky Orchard, the bulk of the book centers around the unlikely friendship between two women – one young and the other elderly. The book’s lead character Mazie stands on the porch of her family’s second home in the mountains of rural Pennsylvania the morning after she has arrived there. Awash […]
My Top 7 Memoir-Writing Lessons
Writing memoir is a tricky thing. Memoirists, like me, find real-life images to describe weaving life events into the story of our lives. For the seamstress, it’s like fashioning fabric; for the potter, molding a lump of clay into something recognizable; for the builder, it’s construction from the foundation. As a former Mennonite, my history […]
Writing About the Environment for Teens
By Tracy Richardson, author of The Field (April, 2019), Catalyst (June, 2020) and Indian Summer (Sept., 2020) I’m a science geek. Everything about the natural world engages and amazes me. From observing a snail inching a slick path on a rotten stump during one of my hikes, to contemplating the vastness of the unknowable Universe, […]
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