The always informative Women’s Fiction Writers blog recently posted a piece in which author Carolyn Turgeon shared her own novel-writing mistakes. If you haven’t seen it, we highly recommend that you take a look. Turgeon describes some of the attitudes (rational or not) and practices that trip us all up….sometimes repeatedly. Ahem. Read, learn, andContinue reading “Mistakes We Make”
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Author Angela Belcher Epps: Telling Your Truth
Author Angela Belcher Epps explores what happens when a mother walks out on her children in her compelling novella, Salt in the Sugar Bowl. (Main Street Rag, $10) Epps, an English teacher at an alternative high school, explores the complexities of life— including love, family relationships, loss and abandonment in her work. See her websiteContinue reading “Author Angela Belcher Epps: Telling Your Truth”
Welcome Journalist Jane E. Dee
Please welcome Connecticut-based journalist Jane E. Dee to Write Despite. Non-fiction, done well, has a special power all its own, which Jane’s writing attests to. Read her latest essay, a touching account of her beloved father’s decline. More from Jane: In college I considered myself a “creative writer.” Being a reporter didn’t appeal to me.Continue reading “Welcome Journalist Jane E. Dee”
Zombie Summer
A writer can’t create in a vacuum, as they say. So all of us are avid readers first, writers second. I suppose. At least I hope. Otherwise, it would be sort of like someone who’s barely picked up a bat suddenly deciding to be a pitcher for the Yankees, right? So this summer, thanks toContinue reading “Zombie Summer”