Tag: women writers
From Rejection To Publication
I’m 54 years old and very proud of my age. It’s the time in my life where I feel most comfortable with me and who I am. It’s taken me a long time to get to this place where I think life is just what it is…it’s just life…just live it. I’ve been writing for […]
Drafting in Sequences
As an LA native, most of my in-person writing buddies are screenwriters. I’ve learned so much from them. The way they break down story is fascinating to me. One of the things they swear by is a method that involves constructing a story in sequences. I started using sequences (albeit clumsily) in my first published […]
Sometimes You Have to Stumble
On New Year’s Eve, My Own True Love and I stood in the main square in Salzburg and waited for the countdown to midnight to begin. It was raining, an icy drizzle that occasionally opened up into something more. The square was crowded with happy drunks. Not my favorite combination. But dancing in the square […]
What Your Younger Self Can Teach You About Writing
We’ve all done those self-actualizing and inspirational exercises where we write a letter to our younger self, haven’t we? Where we look back at our frazzled crazy teenage personas, and wish we could tell them to relax, or stop worrying, or focus on the big picture instead of who has the best hair or whether […]
Make ‘em Laugh
Humour in writing? That’s a toughie, how do I know that what makes me laugh will have the same effect on you? I don’t and yet, there I am writing comedy hoping that all my readers will reach the end with a big smile on their faces. And so far, it seems to be happening. […]
Writing And Food: How What You Eat Impacts Your Mood And Creativity
The holiday season is upon us. It brings food, family, and friends together for so many of us. But holidays can also be emotionally charged and triggering for several people. No matter which spectrum of emotions you might be experiencing, notice how humankind expresses both celebration and mourning through food! How often do we eat […]
Painless Editing in Easy Steps
For many authors, editing a book is their favourite part of the process. They enjoy crafting their rough first draft into the elegant book that they had in mind when they started to write, hanging flesh on the bare bones of the plot and transforming it from a series of scenes into a work of […]
How My Children Inspire My Writing – Samantha King
When I start writing a new book, I begin not with a plot idea, but a feeling – a vivid, compelling emotion that I have either experienced myself, or can imagine my characters experiencing. For me, two of the strongest are fear and yearning: yearning to become or to find something; and, set alongside that, […]
The Forgotten Home Child
For the past ten years or so, I have made it my mission to learn as much as I can about Canadian history. Back then, I was as surprised about my own enthusiasm for the subject as my high school history teacher would have been. After all, I had slept through most of those classes, […]
Keeping Going
Like so many writers, my journey to publication was long and winding. I love telling the story because it’s the kind of story that would have given me hope back then, in my trying-to-get-published years. It started with an MA in Creative Writing in 2004. Of course, it started long before that, really, with an […]
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