Tag: women writers
Writer’s Block and the Refrigerator
What is the spark that ignites your creativity? What sets your imagination on fire, sending you to your laptop or notebook to record those thoughts before they fly away? What keeps you moving forward? This is the best part of writing, letting the words fly across the page as your characters take shape and you […]
Mining My Own Experiences to Create a Cult
By Alexandria Faulkenbury As an author about to publish my debut novel, I’m often asked about the inspiration for the story. And at this point in the roller coaster that is publishing a book, I have a standard answer: I’ve always been interested in cults, so I wanted to write about one. But that’s only […]
Spending Seven Years Writing a Novel: A Study in Madness or Determination?
Spending Seven Years Writing a Novel: A Study in Madness or Determination? This June, my fifth novel, Claire Casey’s Had Enough, will be released. When I shared the cover in my monthly newsletter, many friends said, “Wow, you wrote it so fast!” I laughed because that couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m sharing this […]
Lora Chilton in Conversation with Ah’SaWei WaTaPa’AnTam (Golden Fawn)
Lora Chilton and Ah’SaWei WaTaPa’AnTam (Golden Fawn) 1666: A Novel The survival story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia has been remembered within the tribe for generations, but the massacre of Patawomeck men and the enslavement of women and children by land hungry colonists in 1666 has been mostly unknown outside of the tribe until […]
What I Didn’t Know
by Beverly Burch It started with stories, a series of short fiction over a period of years. Some I published in literary journals, some lived on my computer, but the characters began to recur. I didn’t know they were going to do that. In a story with a new character, a woman from an earlier […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: June
Hello Readers & Friends, All this talk about summer reading, and I fell short in meeting my quota for the month. Sigh. While I traveled in June—the perfect time to get lost in a book—I disconnected and focused on the moment. Which was pretty amazing. But nine is still a good number, and these […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Dana Mentink
Fire Mountain, Dana Mentink Fire rains from above as they fight to discover the truth and stay alive. In the shadow of a threatening volcano, long-haul trucker Kit Garrido wakes up in her crashed big rig, unable to recall what happened or why she’s suddenly in possession of someone’s baby. Fiercely independent, she has to […]
The Third Novel By Jill McCroskey Coupe
By Jill McCroskey Coupe “Last year at the Kauai Writers Conference, Salman Rushdie offered a keynote in which he said: ‘Writing is a mess.’ He couldn’t be more right. There’s nothing about the process of writing a book that follows a prescribed way of doing things or a specific formula. Just keep writing and letting […]
What to Expect When Publishing a Book
By Lauren Wittenberg Weiner I’ve always said that one of the critical drivers of my success over my life is that I can write really well under substantial time pressure. My high school English teachers should be credited for that, and it got me through high school and college and even my PhD with a […]
Writing Through Challenging Times
by Tracy Shawn It takes energy, determination, and focus to get those words down. And it can be even more challenging to find the motivation to write when being bombarded by bad news and anxious thoughts. And let’s face it, there’s lots of bad news out there—plus a lot more of us are feeling a […]
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