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 | 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 | Jun 17, 2016 | Articles, Guest Contributors
By Maggie Leffler I grew up in a family of women writers, where it was normal to have disclaimers about fair use in the midst of casual conversation. After sharing an anecdote, it was not uncommon for my sister or mother to say to me, “Please don’t use this; it’s...
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”...
