by Editor | Mar 7, 2018 | Articles, Writer to Writer
By Patricia Keeler A Wannabe I sat on the bed and put my feet up on the bathtub. Something was tapping on the window. But the glass was painted over, so I didn’t know what. I’d made it to the tiny New York apartment of a friend of a friend of a...
by Editor | Jan 30, 2018 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Writer to Writer
By Jamie Raintree There’s a funny thing that happens when you set out to write a book: you start out with a character that is seemingly nothing like you in any way, but the more you write, the more your own thoughts, characteristics, and challenges begin...
by Editor | May 17, 2017 | Articles, Writer to Writer
By Michael Laser Recently, I learned, to my great surprise, that a story I wrote has become an international bestseller. Nearly three million copies have been sold, and translations are forthcoming in dozens of languages. A movie version opened in the U.S. a few...
by Editor | Feb 15, 2017 | Articles, Resources for Writers, Writer to Writer
By Scott Stambach, author of The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko: A Novel In the midst of teaching geometry to a class of fifteen-year-olds, I received that dreamy call notifying me that my first novel was going to be published. At some point in my lecture, a New York...
by Editor | Jan 3, 2017 | Articles, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
By Lenore H. Gay In my novel Shelter of Leaves, character names carried meaning. An excerpt from the prologue: “Beside her swimming pool, Elaine closed her eyes against the sun. She imagined a drifting boat flanked by trees; crimson, marigold and burnt sienna leaves...
by Editor | Dec 6, 2016 | Articles, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
By Peggy Garrity I have been writing this book for a long time. Well, not actually this book…but a book. In the more than forty years I have been practicing law, I have always written in some form or another, yearning to share what I was experiencing and learning in...