Tag: women writers
What helped and Hindered My Writing
What has helped and hindered my writing? I spent a few weeks thinking about this and watching myself to see what items applied to me and what reasons I was using as an excuse not to write. The main reasons that I found myself using this last year has been my health. I suffered from […]
Writers, Let’s Talk About The F-word: Finances
Writers, let’s talk about the F-word: finances When you come face-to-face with death, fears leave you. You know your time is up, and you stop fighting. There is a feeling on the inside…which is more real than anything else … that is about acceptance and surrendering. No matter how many TV shows and movies make […]
The Importance Of Not Writing
Why Not Writing is as Important as Writing by Moira Forsyth, author of Tell Me Where You Are I’m sometimes asked how long it takes to write a novel. I’ve only once, in all my years of producing novels, been able to write ‘full time’. Even then I had a big house to clean, a […]
The Best Books Of Summer 2019
The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden At only 26, Mia West believes she has her entire future planned out. But then her boyfriend announces he needs time apart and everything she knows about her life is thrown into chaos. Leaving her heartbreak behind, she agrees to travel the world with her roommate and a group […]
The Provence cliffs that inspired Carol Drinkwater’s new novel
Cobalt skies, a stunning rocky coastline and the Mediterranean sea provide the backdrop to Carol Drinkwater’s latest book The House on the Edge of the Cliff. My new novel, The House on the Edge of the Cliff, is set, or predominantly set, in the South of France. Think cobalt skies, lapping waves, a rocky coastline, […]
It’s a Rocky Road To Publication
So, where does it start, this road to publication? A few minutes on the internet suggests some authors pick up the trail around the time they start to write, others only when a manuscript is ready to submit to publishers or agents. Stories come from deep within us, partly from nurture, partly from nature. Mine […]
The MS Factor
I’m a social worker and horrible with names. Whenever I arrive to conduct assessments I have to glance at the information on my paper before the door opens. However, I’m great with remembering faces and places. It was a Friday when I pulled up to my final assessment of the afternoon and knew I’d been […]
When a Character Has More to Say
In Virginia City, Nevada, a woman walks into a bar. When she tries to pay for her drinks, none of her credit cards work. “They all have different names,” says the bartender. “You got any ID?” “I’m Lianna Dru!” the woman cries. “I’m here for the Boom Town Days and the cast reunion for […]
Excerpt of Heartsong: Living with a Dying Heart: A Memoir
Anita Swanson Speake’s got the news that her heart was dying at age 65, but she wasn’t ready to be done with this life. Everyone is dying, fast or slow—and the need to find a way to be OK with that is as urgent for this author as it is for readers, in her memoir, Heartsong. […]
Truth or Fiction: Does it Really Matter?
I believe it was the brilliant, and often quotable, Anna Quindlen who once said: if you are writing fiction, many will believe that what you put down on paper is actually true. Of course, on the flip side, if you profess your work as factual: perhaps in a memoir highlighting tales of a harrowing youth, […]
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