Barbara Linn Probst, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/barbaralinnprobst/ Sat, 03 Apr 2021 20:27:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 How The Piano Made Me A Better Writer https://booksbywomen.org/how-the-piano-made-me-a-better-writer/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-the-piano-made-me-a-better-writer/#respond Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:54:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=34698 By Barbara Linn Probst The Sound Between the Notes is my second novel, but it’s also my first. I wrote it before I wrote Queen of the Owls, which was published a year ago, almost to the day … and rewrote it … and rewrote it … and rewrote it. The manuscript had even been […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-the-piano-made-me-a-better-writer/feed/ 0 34698 Finding Myself at The Great Big Ball of Hair in Jefferson, Texas https://booksbywomen.org/finding-myself-at-the-great-big-ball-of-hair-in-jefferson-texas/ https://booksbywomen.org/finding-myself-at-the-great-big-ball-of-hair-in-jefferson-texas/#respond Mon, 06 Apr 2020 07:09:30 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30059 Barbara Linn Probst If you know what I’m referring to in the title of this piece, then you’ve been to the Pulpwood Queens’ Girlfriends Weekend, and you probably have a good idea what this essay will be about. But if you haven’t, and don’t, then read on.  On second thought, read on either way.  The […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/finding-myself-at-the-great-big-ball-of-hair-in-jefferson-texas/feed/ 0 30059 A Protagonist We Can Root For:  Likable, Relatable, Neither, Or Both? https://booksbywomen.org/a-protagonist-we-can-root-for-likable-relatable-neither-or-both/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-protagonist-we-can-root-for-likable-relatable-neither-or-both/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:22:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=24958 The question of likability, especially for female protagonists, is a topic that has sparked heated debate. Male protagonists have, traditionally, had an easier time of it. There have been rascals and rogues as well as knights; for every Atticus Finch, there’s a Rhett Butler. Yet female protagonists have had a more difficult history. Eccentricity is […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/a-protagonist-we-can-root-for-likable-relatable-neither-or-both/feed/ 6 24958 Organic Coherence: Enhancing A Scene’s Effectiveness https://booksbywomen.org/organic-coherence-enhancing-a-scenes-effectiveness-barbara-linn-probst/ https://booksbywomen.org/organic-coherence-enhancing-a-scenes-effectiveness-barbara-linn-probst/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:25:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23974 How many times have we heard that every scene must have a goal, conflict, and pivot, concluding with an upward or downward shift in the protagonist’s journey? The formulation sounds right and, to an extent, it is. Like most generic advice, however, it’s too rigid and mechanical; something’s left out. That’s because we need to […]

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