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 | 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 | 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...
by Editor | Sep 30, 2016 | Articles, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
By Mary Dingee Fillmore When the fifth course of antibiotics failed, I began to wonder. In the mirror, my cheekbones looked much too much like a supermodel’s, and my ribs were showing. I threw up anything I tried to eat. The normally cheerful nurses who had cared for...
by Editor | Jun 17, 2016 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Writing Inspiration, Writing Process
By Jennifer Dwight The first time I sat down to make notes about the book that had been churning inside me, it was to be quick and casual. Maybe 45 minutes, I thought. I was still in my nightgown and robe, barefoot – an unsuspecting target. I wrote “Whatever It Takes”...
