Tag: women writers
Becoming Good Friends with Fear
Fear and I have been acquaintances for some time, but I only recently decided to become good friends with fear. In 2014 I was laid off from my day job. After much reflection, I decided to pursue a path that was both new and frightening to me. I gave away most of my material goods […]
From Prison Manager To Author
I wrote ‘The Handbook for Highly Sensitive People’ to help HSPs to thrive rather than just survive in this non-sensitive world. One in five or 1.4 billion people globally have the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity. I am one of them, but for the first thirty-two years of my life I didn’t know about […]
Faith in fiction
Every year around Thanksgiving, well-meaning articles suddenly appear warning folks not to discuss politics or religion at the table if they want to keep the holiday meal friendly. Is the same true when writing fiction? If we want our stories to have wide appeal, perhaps we’re better off staying away from these contentious subjects as […]
When You Don’t Have Time To Write
“I don’t have time to write” is my least favorite mantra, one that I’ve so often heard from lapsed and would-be writers. I used to chant it a lot to myself, and the more I repeated it the more I believed it. It became an immutable fact of life – until an unlikely situation shifted […]
Writing For Transformation And Bliss
In late 2017, my book, Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life was published, and the response to it has been excellent. As a result, I decided to create a companion journal and this was just released on January 1st, 2019. Developed for the seasoned storyteller as well […]
Writing the Hard Stuff: Seven Things You Need to Know
Tell me if you can relate to this: You’re deep into your writing and everyone else in the house is asleep, even the dog. You’re crying as you type, wiping at your face in order to see the computer screen, unwilling to leave your keyboard to get a tissue. In fact, you’re so completely in […]
Writing Putney
The inspiration for writing Putney began to take hold when my two daughters were teenagers. It was a time when the news brought apparently endless stories of men charged with child sexual abuse. Shocking numbers of these accusations dated back decades and especially to the 1970s – the era when I was growing up in […]
How I Wrote an Historical Novel Set in China
It seems that China has always beckoned to me. The process involved in writing my novel, The Secret Language of Women, Book #1 of the Wayfarer Trilogy, began way before I ever thought of becoming a writer. I was a child growing up in Brooklyn and became entranced by the Chinese family who owned the […]
My Mother’s Blessing To Be A Writer
It’s been eleven years since my mother passed away, eleven years since I last heard her voice. She was sixty-three years old, unquestionably too young. After she died, I began paying attention to the experiences friends had with similar losses. Some of them spoke of messages they believed their loved ones had sent – birds […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Sandi Ward And Lily The Cat
Sandi Ward writes books about love, family, forgiveness…and cats. Her shrewdly observed, funny, and wonderfully touching novel SOMETHING WORTH SAVING tells of a fractured family, a teenage boy, and a remarkable cat whose loyalty knows no bounds . . . We asked Sandi if she’d be willing to interview Lily, and to our utter delight, […]
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