fiction Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/fiction/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:37:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 The Power of Never Giving Up https://booksbywomen.org/the-power-of-never-giving-up/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-power-of-never-giving-up/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:08:29 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23359 Time flies. We all know it. Whether you’re having fun or not. Whether the years are filled with sublime happiness or utter sadness, or, like most of us, with a combination of both. It simply goes, and sometimes, our dreams go with it. We turn around and ten or twenty years have whipped by and […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-power-of-never-giving-up/feed/ 4 23359 Cooking And Writing https://booksbywomen.org/cooking-and-writing-barbara-oneal/ https://booksbywomen.org/cooking-and-writing-barbara-oneal/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2018 06:15:26 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23098 I’m at one of those spots in my book where I’ve made a wrong turn somewhere, and I don’t quite know what the mistake is. Maybe a character did something wrong. Maybe a scene has veered off-track. Maybe a backstory bit that’s not going to work with the emerging story. Something. And until I figure […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/cooking-and-writing-barbara-oneal/feed/ 0 23098 The Inspiration Behind Strangers On A Bridge https://booksbywomen.org/strangers-on-a-bridge/ https://booksbywomen.org/strangers-on-a-bridge/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:31:43 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23355 I have lived in various locations in Switzerland on and off for more than thirty years. The Alps certainly have their fair share of beauty for inspirational settings for a novel. Think of Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms or DH Lawrence’s Women in Love where the reader’s imagination is transported to the mountains by the sheer […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/strangers-on-a-bridge/feed/ 2 23355 A Day in the Life of a Writer: Elyssa Friedland https://booksbywomen.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-writer-by-elyssa-friedland/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-writer-by-elyssa-friedland/#respond Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:46:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23038 While I was asked to write about a typical day in my life as a novelist, it would have been more appropriate to call this piece “A Night in the Life of a Writer” because my brain becomes most active in the hour before I fall asleep. I lie in bed and think about what […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-writer-by-elyssa-friedland/feed/ 0 23038 Listening for the Heartbeat by Eliza Maxwell https://booksbywomen.org/listening-for-the-heartbeat-by-eliza-maxwell/ https://booksbywomen.org/listening-for-the-heartbeat-by-eliza-maxwell/#respond Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:31:57 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22996 Sometime back in the days before Instagram and Snapchat I found myself in a place I never expected to be. Exhausted. Two babies in two years and I didn’t know if I’d ever see another full night’s sleep. The Dance of Diapers and Bottles was taking a toll physically, yet the mental seesaw between utter […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/listening-for-the-heartbeat-by-eliza-maxwell/feed/ 0 22996 When Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction . . . and Then Becomes Fiction https://booksbywomen.org/when-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction-and-then-becomes-fiction/ https://booksbywomen.org/when-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction-and-then-becomes-fiction/#respond Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:19:36 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21329 My book began as a list of men’s names scrawled on the back of a cocktail napkin. I was at drinks with friends, relating the details of my latest Match.com dates. I’d been dumped before the first kiss, donned full HAZMAT gear on a third date, and, been set up with another date’s mom. I’d fallen—hard—for a […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/when-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction-and-then-becomes-fiction/feed/ 0 21329 What Happens When An Unreliable Character Pops Into Your Head? https://booksbywomen.org/what-happens-when-an-unreliable-character-pops-into-your-head-by-kaira-rouda/ https://booksbywomen.org/what-happens-when-an-unreliable-character-pops-into-your-head-by-kaira-rouda/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2017 05:07:37 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20174 The short answer: you write his story. Here’s what happened to me. Last summer I was working on the first book in what would be a women’s fiction series at the request of my agent. You see, with the exception of one of my previous novels, my books were considered women’s fiction, even though some […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/what-happens-when-an-unreliable-character-pops-into-your-head-by-kaira-rouda/feed/ 3 20174 Writing in Disaster’s Wake https://booksbywomen.org/writing-in-disasters-wake-by-patricia-perry-donovan/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-in-disasters-wake-by-patricia-perry-donovan/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:34:29 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20074 In January 2013, less than three months after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, an audience of volunteers studied the diagram on the screen. Titled “Emotional Phases of a Disaster,” the figure resembled a tremulous, lopsided W, each point labeled with a stage in a community’s typical reaction to catastrophe: Pre-Disaster, Impact, Heroic, Honeymoon, Disillusionment […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/writing-in-disasters-wake-by-patricia-perry-donovan/feed/ 0 20074 Falling in Love with the Enemy https://booksbywomen.org/falling-in-love-with-the-enemy-by-elizabeth-buchan/ https://booksbywomen.org/falling-in-love-with-the-enemy-by-elizabeth-buchan/#respond Sat, 10 Jun 2017 07:58:15 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16319 After the end of the Second World War, my aunt married a German whom she had met before the war began. They were deeply in love but, for obvious reasons, the marriage sent shock waves through my family and no doubt through his. It must have taken all their determination and courage to weather the […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/falling-in-love-with-the-enemy-by-elizabeth-buchan/feed/ 0 16319 Getting Past the Opening: Where to Start your Novel https://booksbywomen.org/getting-past-the-opening-where-to-start-your-novel-by-linda-k-sienkiewicz/ https://booksbywomen.org/getting-past-the-opening-where-to-start-your-novel-by-linda-k-sienkiewicz/#comments Thu, 11 May 2017 20:05:56 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18993 We sit in front of the keyboard, poised, with an idea for a book spinning in our head, and find ourselves afraid to start. After all, we are aware we have one paragraph, or three at best, to capture the attention of the reader. What do we do? My friend and mentor, Elizabeth Searle, offered […]

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