Tag: women writers
Acting And Writing
Tina Sloan is best known for her twenty-six-year role on CBS’s soap The Guiding Light and as the author of Changing Shoes: Getting Older – Not Old – with Style, Humor and Grace based on her autobiographical one-woman show. The Changing Shoes book release coincided with the launch of the show in New York, which went on to grace stages across […]
Writing and Sex, by Sande Boritz Berger
When I first began writing on the cusp of becoming a teen, sex was never a subject matter of either my poetry or short stories, nor was the three-letter word mentioned in my reading material at the time- the 1950’s. I was a naïve, though dedicated fan of the popular female sleuths, Nancy Drew and […]
One Dangerous Liberty
We who write stories are damn brave. We spin out people with whom we live in almost every moment of our lives. We create their world. They create ours. We take them places. They take us. We live with them, fuss over them, argue with them, let ourselves be surprised by them. We dive into […]
On Inspiration
Inspiration – there is no such thing as ‘standard’ but that’s okay Inspiration is defined as ‘the process of being mentally stimulated to do something, especially something creative’ and ‘someone or something giving you the idea to do something’; which leaves you with an extremely broad scope for where ideas can come from. This can […]
Writing And Performing A TEDX Talk
Do you dream about a TEDxTalk? Go inside the process of writing and performing a TED Talk with author Polo Tate At the time of my TEDxTALK audition, I had a birds-eye view of what I had hoped would be a majestic “idea worth spreading.” I wanted to talk about how to find true fulfilment in life—something poignant that took me an […]
Writers And Cats
Ernest Hemingway, a lifelong ailurophile (or cat fancier), wrote “one cat just leads to another,” and he knew what he was talking about. What could be a more natural companion animal for an author than a cat? Many writers and felines keep odd hours, often prefer solitude over socializing, and are known to become “testy” […]
My Raging Doubt
Sometimes, just for fun, I torture myself with existential questions like this: which personal fact contributes most to my raging self-doubt, being a writer or being a recovering Midwesterner? (I can’t even throw being a mother into the mix or my head will explode.) But here is another possibility: my penchant for over-analyzing and occasionally […]
Jumping into the Deep End
When I was an elfin five-year-old with a pixie cut, without asking permission or telling anyone, I jumped off the diving board into the deep end of a pool in Arizona. The teenage lifeguard immediately dove in and rescued me. I clearly recall feeling offended—I hadn’t needed rescuing! I’d had some lessons and I could […]
An Interview with Melissa W. Hunter
An Interview with Melissa W. Hunter Melissa W. Hunter is an author and blogger from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her articles have been published on Kveller.com and LiteraryMama.com, and her short stories have appeared in the Jewish Literary Journal. She is a contributing blogger to the Today Show parenting community, and her novella Through a Mirror Clear […]
A Typical Writing Day: Anne Leigh Parrish
I come into my office each morning with one goal—to calm the chaos in my head. I don’t sleep well these days, probably my body telling me I need fewer hours in the sack—and what I’m working on tends to make its way into my dreams and woozy waking moments. I always have several projects […]
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