Tag: women writers
Mid-Life Writers Can Survive Perimenopause
By Alexandra Addams As a mid-life, female novelist with a completed manuscript clutched in your sweaty hand, you face many challenges to get that book out in the world. You took your sweet time with the writing and now you love it. Then you edited the darn thing for umpteenth revisions until finally you were […]
I’m Jealous of Pamela Anderson, But Not for the Reasons You Might Think
A Memoirist Shares by Renee Gilmore The other night, I found myself watching a Netflix documentary about Pamela Anderson. Why? I’m not exactly sure. I’ll admit—I had my own assumptions about her. I imagined her life, filled with wealth and ease, sunshine and fresh-squeezed juices. Maybe that’s true, maybe not. It makes me wince, saying […]
Perspective Will Drive Your Story Forward
by Kathryn Craft “To expand the reader’s perspective is one of literature’s highest callings. Memoir would be pointless without it. Perspective pervades a journalist’s best quotes, energizes speeches, and makes history worth reading about.” I wrote those sentences in a handout for one of my earliest conference presentations, after noticing that my developmental editing clients […]
The Baby’s Cry, the Blank Page, and the Myth of the Writing Mother
By Caroline Lea I once tried to revise a sex scene while cooking dinner for my family. Reader, it was a disaster: the chicken was burned and had to be binned; the characters lost interest in each other. Everyone cried. In an ideal world, the mythical figure of the writing mother would also be an […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Heather Ogden
The Betrayal Angelette Arabella has spent her life in the shadow of the man the nation calls a hero—her father, Valerius, the revered leader of Libertis. To the world, he’s a savior. To her, he’s simply “Dad.” But when a staged kidnapping spirals into something far more dangerous, Angelette is forced to face the truth: […]
Author’s Note: From Surviving to Thriving
By Shigeko Ito In the midst of an unexpectedly tumultuous middle-aged motherhood, I stumbled upon creative writing—a lifeline that helped me gradually emerge from a dark tunnel of stress, anxiety, and depression. Putting pen to paper allowed me to delve into the past, uncovering the root cause of my struggles. Little did I know that […]
Some Notes on Writing
By Barbara Benish Writing is not my primary communication nor form of expression: it is visual arts. Learning the magic of lines-drawing- was, like for most children, my primary experience of making. But I do remember vividly the magic of learning to read and write, of putting letters together to make meaning. It’s one of […]
Bridging the Past and Present: Writing Romance Rooted in History
By Shanna Hatfield Books have been a wonderful source of adventure for as long as I can remember. My mother shared her love of books with me, reading to me most every night as a young child. When I was old enough to read the books myself, my favorite stories were those that brought the […]
Song Over The Bones: Silence As Reclamation
By Melissa Meszaros Internet dating should not exist without a relationship jail. If you fail to comply with who you say you are, there should be consequences, a fraudulent misrepresentation suit, maybe. Technology upgrades, but lies stay the same. I work in public relations, a polishing job. I can take anyone’s half-formed thought and spin […]
Have Attitudes Towards Women Really Changed Since 1900?
Journalist Caroline McGhie got to explore Victorian attitudes to women’s rights, sexual freedom, religion, art and pornography when writing her debut novel The Sitter. But has anything changed since 1900? How a woman copes after she has been taken advantage of has long been a subject of interest for writers of women’s fiction. More recently […]
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