What: I met my gracious blog host Linda at the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine, where I studied “popular fiction.” That was their term for fiction that people don’t feel pressured to read, and usually with spaceships or ghosts or detectives. I chose popular fiction because I sometimes do use spaceships and ghosts and detectives in my work, though it’s a stretch to … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Lynne Golodner
What? While I’ve always been a writer, and I write in lots of genres and about lots of topics, these days I am focused on writing emotional novels with compelling Jewish characters that fill their lives with passion, purpose and food. I also write creative nonfiction essays. But really, my main focus is writing novels at the pace of a book a year. My second novel, Cave of Secrets, will make its … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Susan Sage
What: My third novel, Dancing in the Ring, was published in 2023 by Black Rose Writing. While it’s Historical Fiction, it can also be described as Historical Biography or Historical Romance. It’s the story of Detroit in the 1920s through the 1930s, as much as it is the love story and tumultuous marriage of Catherine McIntosh and Robert Sage—my great aunt and uncle. Why: My father's … [Read more...]
August- A Collaborative Poem
I wrote the first stanza, and friends contributed the other lines of this collaborative poem! I hope you enjoy it as much as you enjoy this late summer month. Hello August: August will be filled with firefliesAugust will be filled with sidewalk heatAugust will be filled with lemonadeAugust will be filled with dips in the lakeAugust will be filled with children dancing in the sprinklerAugust … [Read more...]
Writing for favors
You want me to do WHAT? A while ago I did some web writing in exchange for other services for an acquaintance after they begged me to help them. I figured how hard could it be? As it turned out, I spent hours trying to translate a disjointed spoken message into readable text while also doing research on the products so that what I wrote made sense. The exchange of goods eventually worked, but I … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- …
- 112
- Next Page »