Paula Coston, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/paulacoston/ Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:49:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Childless writers: should we use the childbirth metaphor for the act of writing? https://booksbywomen.org/childless-writers-use-childbirth-metaphor-act-writing/ https://booksbywomen.org/childless-writers-use-childbirth-metaphor-act-writing/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2014 04:00:56 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11112 Last year I finished a novel. Three years of sweat and tears, false starts, protracted labour, the wish that I’d never conceived it in the first place. I had an eerie sense that it was attached to me by an umbilical cord, but once it was done it had a life somehow distinct and separate, […]

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