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Have Fun: Inspiration, Process, and Approach

Women Writers Women Books — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:48:00 +0000

Have Fun: Inspiration, Process, and Approach In 1653, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle —‘Mad Marge’— wrote that woman’s intelligence was equal to man’s, therefor women learned as easily.(1) She argued that the only difference was that men had more opportunities to educate themselves. In 2nd and 3rd grade, Cindy Myers, Denise Wallenstein and I played […]

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Magazine or a Journal, What’s the Difference? by Alicia Blando, MD

Women Writers Women Books — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:10:44 +0000

Magazine or a Journal. What’s the Difference? by Alicia Blando, MD My parents emigrated from the Philippines to pursue a better life for their children. It wasn’t hard to become fluent in the English language since American television shows were popular in the islands. All throughout grade school and high school, my father would take […]

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Inspiration for my Cheese Shop Mystery series

Women Writers Women Books — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:01:21 +0000

Cheese. It’s classic. It’s comforting. It’s communal. It’s also having something of a Renaissance, in part thanks to social media. Who can resist watching a freshly melted Raclette scraped from its wheel and ooze onto crisped fingerling potatoes? Gatherings that once included a humble cheese platter now boast table-length charcuterie boards and elaborate cheese bars. […]

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Juggling Life and Art: One Woman’s Story

Women Writers Women Books — Sat, 01 May 2021 06:29:34 +0000

For many women writers trying to achieve book publication, there are detours, roadblocks, and dead ends. The release of both my first book, Winded: A Memoir in Four Stages, in 2019, and my novel The Remnants of Summer this May illustrate the circuitous route some women and their books travel. In early 1993, when I […]

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Why I Read and Write about Illness

Catherine Lanser — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 12:43:03 +0000

The thought of a hospital scares some people. Some people think hospital cafeteria food is awful. Some people expect to read a whole book without any bodily fluids making an appearance. I am not one of these people. I love the hospital, the food, and those free little booties they give you. I have had […]

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Writing for a New Generation – How Inclusive Writing Benefits Everyone

Cole W. Williams — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:11:04 +0000

Every book is a journey. It starts with an initial idea and evolves continuously, as more people are brought into the fold and made a part of the project. For Indie authors this can be a daunting ride, or an invigorating one, depending on their amassed team and proclivity for adventure and risk. The long […]

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Rape Is A 4-Letter Word

E.C. Frey — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:42:24 +0000

Entangled Moon, my debut corporate suspense thriller novel, opens with a graphic rape and murder scene. Why? Why would a woman subject herself to writing such a thing? Why would she choose such a controversial subject for her debut? Worse, I wrote a second rape scene. It was the hardest thing I have ever done, […]

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Call Yourself A Writer – Right Away!

Denise Barnes — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:13:25 +0000

When is it the right time to call yourself a writer? Anyone can call themselves a writer, but let’s say you’re serious in that you try to write regularly, and possibly submit work. You’re probably unpublished. So now’s the time to practice telling people when they ask what you do, that you’re a writer. Or […]

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As an Author, Do You Need an Intern?

Women Writers Women Books — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:41:00 +0000

An ‘intern’ is the new literary or arts apprentice which is more skilled than ‘work experience’. And some can be VIRTUAL interns, working from anywhere. ‘Self –employment’ is an increasingly important choice for creatives and our culture needs more entrepreneurs AND authorpreneurs. Until now, I’ve avoided having an intern. Despite requests to provide work-experience for […]

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What I Learned From my Mentor

Lyn G Farrell — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 05:56:44 +0000

I’d been lost in the wilderness of writing for decades. Scraps of writing on torn-off bits of paper were clogging up drawers. Thousands more bits and pieces sat, ignored, on my computer, some of which dated back to 2002. Assignments from a home-study writing course were never completed and barely started ‘how to’ books littered […]

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