Eldonna Edwards, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/eldonnaedwards/ Wed, 29 May 2019 14:14:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 10 Things Writing About a 1970s Commune Taught Me about World-Building https://booksbywomen.org/10-things-writing-about-a-1970s-commune-taught-me-about-world-building-by-eldonna-edwards/ https://booksbywomen.org/10-things-writing-about-a-1970s-commune-taught-me-about-world-building-by-eldonna-edwards/#respond Tue, 28 May 2019 05:42:06 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=26840 “Write what you know.” Every writer has heard this advice more times than we can count. My debut novel This I Know is steeped in my upbringing as a preacher’s daughter in the 1960s Midwest. I understood my characters because they were in my DNA. I was familiar with the rural West Michigan setting because […]

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