What? I'm editing the second draft of my second novel, currently titled Desired Effect. The working log line is, "When a San Francisco actress lands her first film role as the often naked love interest of a flawlessly handsome momma’s boy, it sparks a romance of mythic proportions." While I'm grateful to be this far along after a long (really long) writing process, working on this draft … [Read more...]
Illustrated Reading from In the Context of Love
I made a new video combining a reading from IN THE CONTEXT OF LOVE with royalty free images on iMovie. I call it an illustrated video reading! In it, Angelica imagines what her birthfather is doing and what he looks like. A scary vision "What do you suppose my birth father was doing at that moment? Getting a free meal from the Salvation Army? Lying on a grimy cot in a subsidy-rent apartment … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Non-fiction Writer Melissa Grunow
WHAT? I write personal essays and memoir. My essays have won prizes, such as two years in a row from Detroit Working Writers, and I was nominated for a Pushcart in 2015. My first book, Realizing River City, is an exploration of love, compassion, loss, and ultimately redemption, as it mimics the ebbs and flows of a river to navigate the impact of past relationships on the development of one’s … [Read more...]
Dialogue Tags – Don’t Get Crazy
Nancy Pontificated I'll never forget the time a line of dialogue in a Nancy Drew book that ended ...Nancy pontificated. I laughed out loud. Everyone knows Nancy Drew has strong opinions. She's always pontificating! Why would the author need to interject herself into the dialogue with such a dialogue tag as pontificated?! Said would have easily done the job, and I could have continued reading … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Nancy Owen Nelson
WHAT? For years I wrote poetry here and there, publishing one or two in journals and anthologies. My main focus was academic writing, so I spent much of my time in research. In 1995, I was asked to edit a collection of essays by women in the personal voice, called “feminist literary criticism.” The resulting book, Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life (UNT Press, … [Read more...]
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