Randy Kraft, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/randykraft/ Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:21:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 RATIONAL WOMEN: An Excerpt https://booksbywomen.org/rational-women-an-excerpt/ https://booksbywomen.org/rational-women-an-excerpt/#respond Sat, 25 Apr 2020 07:29:11 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=30775 Feeling bombarded by maddening 24/7 news and social media feeds? Little time for the sheer pleasure of reading? Read a short story – there are a zillion of them bound and online, because a work of fiction gets to the heart of humanity, rather than a restating of the news of the day [although some […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/rational-women-an-excerpt/feed/ 0 30775 Why Short Stories Matter More than Ever, by Randy Kraft https://booksbywomen.org/why-short-stories-matter-more-than-ever-randy-kraft/ https://booksbywomen.org/why-short-stories-matter-more-than-ever-randy-kraft/#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2020 07:26:13 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=29523 Feeling bombarded by maddening 24/7 news and social media feeds? Little time for the sheer pleasure of reading? Read a short story – there are a zillion of them bound and online, because a work of fiction gets to the heart of humanity, rather than a restating of the news of the day [although some […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/why-short-stories-matter-more-than-ever-randy-kraft/feed/ 0 29523 Do You Have to Suffer to Write? https://booksbywomen.org/do-you-have-to-suffer-to-write/ https://booksbywomen.org/do-you-have-to-suffer-to-write/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2014 05:00:37 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11009 Famous authors are often distinguished by horrific childhoods, intensive suffering, depression or desperation. Think Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolff. Memoirists notably mine their traumas like gold, exorcising demons along the way. Of course, conflict is the core of storytelling, and emotional conflicts are fiction’s treasure, but do you have to be miserable to write great fiction? Novelists […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/do-you-have-to-suffer-to-write/feed/ 37 11009 Age: a Writer’s Ally https://booksbywomen.org/age-a-writers-ally-by-randy-kraft/ https://booksbywomen.org/age-a-writers-ally-by-randy-kraft/#comments Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:00:57 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10481 The only thing we know for sure is that we will age. What matters is what we do with our years. There is no statute of limitations on a dream and no rush. I was in my late forties when I completed my Masters in Writing. My first novel had already been roundly rejected and […]

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