The Others and The Council Trilogy are also a way of dealing with my unease over the polarization of politics in this country and how moderates have been robbed of their voice. I gave them magical powers to help get things back on track!
Evette Davis – 29 September 2024 Continue reading
I had loved the book, Watership Down, and had always wanted to write my own story that had animal protagonists.
A.T. Balsara – 29 September 2024 Continue reading
Once I gave myself permission to open my mouth, the stories came faster than I could type. I’d read that writing memories longhand accesses detail and emotion far better than typing, so I wrote and doodled and drew lines between places we moved and the bad guys who came with us.
Bridey Thelen-Heidel Continue reading
I struggled at times when writing about the dangerous aspects of trips I went on; reliving them through writing was sometimes a challenge.
Linda Murphy Marshall – 24 September 2024 Continue reading
There’s a quote that’s been attributed to many different people, but it goes: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” I don’t believe you need to be a suffering artist to create art, but it’s difficult to sort through a past as traumatic as mine to piece together something beautiful.
Ginelle Testa – 22 September 2024 Continue reading
Sharing the more unpleasant times and behaviors were difficult for me, although that’s the very reason I committed to writing it all down. I didn’t want to sugar-coat the experience.
Cindy Eastman – 21 September 2024 Continue reading
I like to write in absolute silence – or as close to that as I can get. That allows me to listen to what my mind is telling me to do next.
Carolyn J Nicholson – 19 Sept 2024 Continue reading
As I cried, three elephants came up behind me from within a wooden corral. One elephant put its trunk on my shoulder, stunning me with its act of compassion. That’s where my story originated.
Susan R. Greenway – 17 September 2024 Continue reading
And then right there, the character of Michelangelo D’Antoni emerged, almost full blown. He began to walk around our house from room to room, smiling and laughing a bit, and even accompanying my wife and I on our walks outside to catch a breath of fresh air. He seemed friendly and engaging, a decent fellow, with a lot on his mind. He also seemed to have a dark side. Once characters step inside your house, they almost become family and you begin to treat them as such.
Tom Maremaa – 15 September 2024 Continue reading
I write the books I want to read and just hope other people will want to read them too. One of the aims behind The Owlbear and the Omens was to write a reverse harem where the arrangement was necessitated by politics rather than used as a tool for erotica.
Aengie Scevity – 13 September 2024 Continue reading