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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 post Perspective Will Drive Your Story Forward appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
by Bianca D’Alessio When I was younger, I used to tell myself that one day I would write a book. It wasn’t because I already knew what story I wanted to tell — but because writing was how I learned to understand myself and process my thoughts. It was the only way I could quiet […] The post Mastering Intentions: 10 Practices to Amplify Your Power and Lead with Lasting Impact appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post The Baby’s Cry, the Blank Page, and the Myth of the Writing Mother appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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: […] The post Authors Interviewing Characters: Heather Ogden appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post Author’s Note: From Surviving to Thriving appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […] The post Some Notes on Writing appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
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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 […] The post Song Over The Bones: Silence As Reclamation appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.| Women Writers, Women's Books
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 […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
Hello Readers & Friends, Have any of you been saying all week long: I can’t believe it’s October?! I have. How was your September? Ours was busy with trips to New York and the mountains out west. The fall foliage gets me every single time. The sound of a rippling river. The crisp air. The […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
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By Leslie Kain In the middle of stressful times, do you read escapist novels? Or stories with characters you can’t stop thinking about, stories that pull you in and won’t let you go? In 2021, a book critic declared the “trauma plot” was dead, suggesting it’s a trope that reduces characters to “a set of […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
As with many writers, I read voraciously as a kid, particularly Nancy Drew mysteries. I even made my own little editions with crayon-drawn covers and stories bound with staples. In a time where women’s career choices were narrowly defined and did not include mystery/thriller writer, I became an educator and later an administrator, both interesting […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
A FAMILY OF GOOD WOMEN Imogene Good finds herself wrestling with this question when, still grieving her mother’s death, she abandons a promising teaching career to open a boarding house in the near-lawless oil boomtown of Borger, Texas. Alone. The business thrives, love arrives in the form of mysterious Texas Ranger, and Imogene takes in […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
By Anusia Gillespie At 29, I quit my law firm job with six-figure debt and no backup plan. Something had shifted. A meditation as part of a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program cracked something open in me, like a champagne cork popping, and there was no going back. It was as if I’d glimpsed behind […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
RESTITUTION As children in Central Illinois, Kate and Martin were never told much about their mother’s childhood in East Germany. And they rarely asked questions. Decades later in 1989, when the Berlin Wall falls, Kate and Martin are faced with a difficult decision: Should they try to reclaim the house in East Germany from which their grandparents fled […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
HELLO WIFE Single, unfulfilled and well into middle age, long-troubled Charlotte Lansing desperately reaches for love and acceptance. When she announces her engagement to an unemployed morphine addict, her family falls into a tailspin. Her mother is determined to prevent disaster, her father seeks to mend the growing chasm, and her sister stubbornly hopes that […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
Margie Goldsmith, author of “Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce.” Covid hit. Most of my magazine assignments were experiential travel stories, but with all travel cancelled, now would be the perfect time to write a memoir. Yet, every famous actor, film star and rock star was writing their life story. Who was I? And […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
by Diane Hartman When I began my memoir, Getting Lost On My Way: Self-Discovery on Ireland’s Backroads, many years ago, I envisioned it as being a book of essays weaved together by a common thread –my four solo trips to Ireland over a period of seven years. I kept a journal during my travels and […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
When I began this story, I thought it would be my fifth rather than sixth book. But as other authors know to happen, life interrupted. I did know that Celia, a character from my “novel in stories” Humanity’s Grace, had more in her. And maybe character Paul did too? This felt like my compulsion to […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
By Heather Snograss Music has a way of weaving its way through all of our lives like thread. Some may use it as background noise while they are studying, working, or even to fall asleep. I am a person who retains what I read with music in the background and that is one reason I like […]| Women Writers, Women's Books
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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 […]| Women Writers, Women's Books