Tag: women writers
My Road To Publishing
From a young age I loved telling stories. I know that sounds like a cliché, but it’s true. At school, I couldn’t get to grips with maths, science or languages, but give me a novel and I was set. I would happily interpret them for exams and read books before they were on the syllabus […]
Techniques for Flexing Memory Muscles
After writing my memoir, Being Mean: A Memoir of Sexual Abuse and Survival, one question I have been asked frequently is, “How can you remember details from so long ago?” Excavating our life experiences can indeed be a challenging and illuminating experience. But certain practices have helped hone my memory muscles, allowing me to dig […]
Journaling: A Writer’s Healthiest Addiction
One of the most powerful habits you can develop as a writer is also one of the simplest: keeping a daily journal. This is no secret. Many of the writers we love, who have moved us with their words and influenced our own work, have also been faithful journalers – from Ida B. Wells and Henry […]
Your Writing Group & You: How to Get the Most Out of What Can Be a Challenging Experience
Writing fiction is a solitary pursuit. The writers of Saturday Night Live might have great craic (“craic” being the Irish word for “fun”) aiming paper airplanes across the table, and end up with memorable and quirky sketches, but it doesn’t work for us novelists. We must work alone. Thus, we need to pause long enough […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Tracy Clark
Tracy Clark writes the Cass Raines PI series, which is set in Chicago. Her series debut, BROKEN PLACES, made Library Journal’s list of the Best Crime Fiction of 2018 and was short listed in the mystery category on the American Library Association’s 2019 Reading List. CrimeReads also named Cass Raines Best New PI of 2018. […]
Excerpt from Water Mask: Interpreting Frozen Ground
In Water Mask, Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family’s cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, […]
Slaying The Sequel
My debut novel, Seeking Eden, gushed into the world like an overdue baby, its gestation barely two and a half years from writing the first line to publication. Words flew from the keys, tumbling over themselves in my haste to tell the story of a group of above-averagely dysfunctional misfits living in a suburban English […]
Writer or “Roadie”: Who Leads the Way – the Author or the Character?
Yes, I created a character in my image … but a way better version, and far more interesting. Sophie Bloom, the protagonist in my new novel, THE UNBREAKABLES, is a hot mess. Her marriage falls apart, her besties betray her, her 19-year-old daughter studying abroad is having an affair with her married professor, and she […]
Getting into the Zone
by Lynne Shelby There are days when the words flow so effortlessly from keyboard to WIP that it feels as though your characters have taken over your plot and are telling their stories for themselves, taking it in directions that you, the writer and supposedly their creator, would never have imagined. You are so deep […]
Why and How Two Strangers Wrote a BDSM Erotic Romance From Opposite Sides Of The Globe
As some of you may know, the online writing community can be one of the most supportive ones out there. Thanks to hashtags on social media, it’s easy to find your little posse of like-minded people. That’s how Amelia Foster and Deana Birch originally met, in a Twitter chat group of unpublished authors all struggling […]
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