Tag: women writers
The Power of Never Giving Up
Time flies. We all know it. Whether you’re having fun or not. Whether the years are filled with sublime happiness or utter sadness, or, like most of us, with a combination of both. It simply goes, and sometimes, our dreams go with it. We turn around and ten or twenty years have whipped by and […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Eliza Graham author of The Lines We Leave Behind
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Eliza Graham author of The Lines We Leave Behind Interview with Maud Knight on board a Halifax bomber heading for Yugoslavia, March 1944. Why are you shivering, Maud? I’m flying out to carry out an operation with the Partisans. It’s cold in this Halifax — it’s a military aircraft with […]
Stop Looking to Others to Create a Life of Joy
Originally published on Psych Central I believe there is not enough dialogue out there about soul-sickness, especially among wealthy communities. We are taught to believe from a young age that once we have the perfect partner, house, car, children, and careers, we will be happy. And often times this is not the case; the happiness […]
The Idea of North: Writing and Recovery By Tanya Marquardt
I wrote the first draft of my book Stray: Memoir of a Runaway drunk. Like blind, staggering drunk. In 2010 that’s what I did best. I had gotten into a prestigious MFA Program, moved from Canada to New York after my mother co-signed a loan from the bank, and had two years to spend my […]
My Journey To Publication: Charlotte Duckworth
I was 6 or 7 when I wrote my first ‘book’. In hindsight it was a shameless Spot the Dog rip-off, created especially for my baby sister. I don’t have any conscious idea of when I knew I wanted to be a writer. I just always loved books, reading and making up stories. Throughout my […]
Writing and Other Jobs
Towards the end of 2014, I found myself in the position I had long dreamed of: I was able to give up my day job and dedicate myself to writing. It had been a whirlwind few months since winning the Bath Novel Award in June, meeting my wonderful agent Juliet Mushens and signing a two-book […]
Where to Hide the Body: Setting in Murder Mysteries
At the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Center—also known as the Body Farm—you’ll find corpses in various conditions and stages of decay. There might be one locked in the trunk of a car or another entangled in the roots of a tree. The goal, as you might guess, is not to scare neighbors on the […]
Bringing History To Life
The task of the historical fiction author is to transport the reader swiftly and believably into the period in which the novel is set. This means accurate description of costume, manners, and food and drink. When it comes to voice and actions, too, the characters must behave themselves, keeping to the language, habits, and beliefs […]
Dads And Their Daughters
When a gunman opened fire on tourists sunbathing on the beach in Tunisia on 26th June 2015, one girl fled with her boyfriend into their hotel reception – and then she called her dad back in the UK to ask him what she should do. It was a poignant detail of that awful tragedy that […]
It’s All in The Moments: Capturing Inspiration
It’s been said that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. The grand gesture, the big finish, the lightning bolt epiphany, the gut searing regret—it’s these moments that define us, change us, reveal our character, good and bad. All tell our story. […]
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