by Editor | Jan 16, 2018 | A Bookish Blog, Articles, Guest Contributors, Writing Process
By Tad Williams Trying to write about writing is always hard, because so much of the process is not only ineffable, but highly individual. For instance, I do a huge amount of writing on my back. This is not actually recommended for everyone — it takes years of...
by Editor | Jan 9, 2018 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Writing Process
By Peter Gajdics In the spring of 2004, when I was 39 years old, I started writing a memoir about my six years in a form of “conversion therapy” at the hands of a licensed psychiatrist, and the medical malpractice suit I’d filed against the doctor for treating...
by Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | A Bookish Blog, Articles
By Caryn Shaffer The holiday season is upon us, which marks a particularly special time for romance novel readers. Holiday romances are released en masse, starting at the end of October and continuing through November. If you need some gentle nudging to wrap those...
by Editor | Sep 27, 2017 | Articles, Guest Contributors
By LB Gschwandtner Facing my computer screen, tacked to a wall are two photos. One is of E.B. White wearing glasses, sitting on a rough wooden bench with an even rougher slab of a wooden table in front of him, on which sits a typewriter with a piece of paper...
by Editor | Sep 19, 2017 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Writing Process
By Lenore Gay Flannery O’Connor in Mystery and Manners wrote: “The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it is well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world, no matter how limited his particular...
by Editor | Aug 22, 2017 | Articles, Short Stories
By David Finkle The weird little man standing next to me had been muttering to himself since the play began. The sound effect was that of a storm gathering in the far distance, but since the rumbling-like mumbling didn’t suggest a storm traveling all that quickly, I...
