Tag: women writers
How I Help Young People with Anxiety in my Book: Vanishings
By Catharina Steel Children struggle with anxiety the same as adults, and it’s beneficial if they are taught how to manage this, possibly working with a specialist to figure out what tools work best for them, and in which scenarios. Young people aren’t necessarily equipped to manage stressful events when they happen, and this can […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tori Eldridge Interviews Ranger Makalani Pahukula
Kaua‘i Storm Returning to Kaua‘i, park ranger Makalani finds her family divided and their way of life at risk in this culturally-rich and emotional adventure by the bestselling author of the Lily Wong series. After ten years away as a national park ranger in Oregon, Makalani Pahukula has come back to Kaua‘i for her grandmother’s […]
Pondering My Aviation Memoir After Three Fatal Plane Crashes
By Shirley M. Phillips One of the hardest tasks for me in finishing my memoir How Not to Fly an Airplane was choosing a title and cover. Although I suspect this is a challenge for many authors, for me it was compounded by the fact that my debut memoir is about my forty years of flying airplanes and teaching others how to fly. Although I […]
Wild Women Write Poetry
Julia Thacker I was in the airport again, running for the gate to catch the first thing smoking – flying – from Boston to Dayton, Ohio. My father had fallen again, had been rushed by ambulance from his assisted living facility to hospital. Our troubled past hardly mattered. He was helpless. I was next of […]
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 […]
Writing ‘A Biography of Níkę – ‘Bàtà Mi á Dún Ko Ko Kà’
Kofo Adeleke As an avid reader, storywriter and collector of books since childhood, I actually believe that the desire to write a book had always been within me. But because it happened rather later in life the urge was probably not quite as burning as for some, although I did for a number of years […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Elizabeth Harlan
Becoming Carly Klein What if 15 year old Carly Klein could become a different person? What if instead of being a rebellious and unhappy student failing out of her uptight, private girls’ school in Manhattan, she could pose as a Barnard College sophomore and become the girlfriend of her psychiatrist mother’s blind patient, Daniel, a […]
The Conjuring Trick
By Ginny Fite A few weeks ago, a long-time writing critique partner announced there was “a lot of telling” in my latest manuscript. Oh, dagger to my heart. He sweetened his assessment by saying, “There’s a lot of showing, but there’s too much telling.” If you’re new to writing fiction, the distinction between telling and […]
The Power of Healing Fiction: How Writing Helped Me Reclaim Myself
By Megan Walrod What if fiction could be a form of healing—not just for the reader, but for the writer too? Over a decade ago, I woke up with a dream image of a woman watering a lemon tree, along with a first line of text. I felt compelled to sit down and start typing. […]
How a Box Became a Novel
By Melora Fern I didn’t plan to write a novel. My immediate goal was to help my dad get the collections of stuff my mom had hauled from Hawaii cleaned out from under their bed. We had just moved her to assisted living now that her Alzheimer’s had advanced. In the six years since they […]
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