Jill Caugherty, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/jillcaugherty/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 17:20:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 A Writer’s Revision Obsession https://booksbywomen.org/a-writers-revision-obsession/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-writers-revision-obsession/#respond Sat, 07 Jan 2023 08:41:36 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=42668 A Writer’s Revision Obsession Types frantically at keyboard… Rereads and deletes… Sighs… Just one more edit… before submitting to critique partners, beta readers, agents, publishers.  Yes, I’m that writer—desperate to tweak a sentence or adjust a character’s dialogue one last time. Perfectionist is a generous word to describe this obsession; anal-retentive is more accurate. Ring […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/a-writers-revision-obsession/feed/ 0 42668 What’s at Stake in Your Novel? https://booksbywomen.org/whats-at-stake-in-your-novel/ https://booksbywomen.org/whats-at-stake-in-your-novel/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2020 13:28:29 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=29839 By Jill Caugherty What keeps readers riveted to a favorite novel, compulsively turning the pages?  Sure, fast-paced action with car chases, gun fights, drug deals gone awry, and racy sex scenes might help, but many writers of character-driven fiction don’t rely on these techniques to ratchet up the tension. Instead, we often create conflict, and […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/whats-at-stake-in-your-novel/feed/ 0 29839 Finding the Inspiration to Write Part-Time  https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-inspiration-to-write-part-time/ https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-inspiration-to-write-part-time/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:17:36 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30282 Given the wave of scary, depressing news, it’s often difficult to pick up the proverbial pen, regardless of whether you write for a living or do it part-time. I’m no exception. As my full-time job, I’m a product manager in the high tech industry, where I’ve held a wide range of software development and marketing […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-inspiration-to-write-part-time/feed/ 0 30282 Surviving Hardship: What We Can Learn From History https://booksbywomen.org/surviving-hardship-what-we-can-learn-from-history/ https://booksbywomen.org/surviving-hardship-what-we-can-learn-from-history/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:35:19 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30078 Why Write about the Great Depression? By Jill Caugherty People sometimes ask why I chose the Great Depression as one of the central time periods of my novel, Waltz in Swing Time. After all, they reason, it’s a dreary chapter in history. One bookseller remarked, “we don’t want to relive it.”  Perhaps that’s why a […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/surviving-hardship-what-we-can-learn-from-history/feed/ 1 30078 On Revision: Reframing the House, Painting, and Applying the Finishing Touches  https://booksbywomen.org/on-revision-reframing-the-house-painting-and-applying-the-finishing-touches/ https://booksbywomen.org/on-revision-reframing-the-house-painting-and-applying-the-finishing-touches/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:04:27 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=28269 by Jill Caugherty  Over ten years ago, in 2008, I began writing my historical novel, WALTZ IN SWING TIME.  I had no firm plans other than to base the story loosely on my grandmother’s life and learn from my mistakes with an earlier shelved autobiographical manuscript.  Little did I realize that the novel would morph […]

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