by Louise Nayer During the pandemic it can be hard to focus on magical moments in your life. Often, however, those moments come when things are hard. For a moment, you turn a switch in your brain and see things differently. My father, who was badly burned, came to pick my sister and me up
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Can a Woman Write a Book for Men?
By Michelle Travis, Author of Dads For Daughters After seeing how my two daughters inspired my husband to become an outspoken advocate for gender equity, I became curious about the father–daughter relationship. I sensed that this relationship held unique power to build men’s empathy and engage male allies in the fight for women’s rights. I
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Sentence Starts – Journaling for Insight and Solutions
Monday Motivation By B. Lynn Goodwin Since our bodies are confined but our minds are not, I’d like to share these sentence starts with you in case you could use a writing nudge as we shelter in place. I’ve been creating these writing prompts since 2004, then writing about them with my free-writing group. I’ve
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Walter Mosley speaks on not picking a lane, fomenting change, and the publishing industry
Podcast Interview by Joey Garcia with guest Walter Mosley. When questioned about his thoughts on writers sometimes being told to “pick a lane and stay in it,” i.e., choose fiction or nonfiction—but not both—Mosley explained that notion is inherently a capitalist one. He added that even when artists are told that what they are working
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Writing for the Love of it: Expiration Date: NEVER!
By Paul Zeidman A friend emailed me to vent his frustration regarding the latest development for pitching his TV pilot. Suffice to say, it didn’t go the way he’d hoped. “Writing is hard work for me, and to have a project like this dismissed completely deflates me. I think I need to set a deadline
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Crafting Your Motivation
by J.M. Frey for Monday Motivation Those of you who follow me on social media will know that before I was a professional writer, I was a fanficcer and cosplayer. I’ve spoken at length about how fanfiction made me a better writer overall, and how it’s served as my apprenticeship in writing for the professional
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