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
I knew instinctively what to do, where to look in my journals, how to organize the story of my journey in a way that might help others find solace as well as providing them with some practical ideas for coping with altered circumstances.
Gwen Suesse – 10 September 2024 Continue reading
The target readers for this collection were people over 65, nearing 65 and their children and friends. It was to begin a dialogue on what aging was about for one woman and could this be a kind of universal thinking?
Jane Seskin – 8 September 2024 Continue reading
The book series spawned from my desire to write about the human condition – including a lack of motivation, the unwelcome feeling of loneliness, the desire to do one’s best, and the nature of quid pro quo.
Fish Nealman – 6 September 2024 Continue reading
This is very much a figure skating book for figure skating readers. If you are a casual fan who tunes in to watch figure skating in the Olympics once every four years, this probably isn’t the book for you.
Ryan Stevens – 3 September 2024 Continue reading