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 →

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 →