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Calling all women – an exciting writing opportunity! Deadline 1st June!

 WRITING OPPORTUNITY Diane DeBella, author of a powerful and disclosing memoir, I Am Subject: Sharing Our Truths to Reclaim Our Selves, is inviting submissions of your stories for an anthology she will edit, and Women Writers, Women Books  will publish.  … Continue reading

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Writing a novel – a terrible experience or a pleasure?

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”  Flannery O’Connor For some writers, writing a novel is a terrible experience. You sweat blood and tears getting it down and then when … Continue reading

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Help! A puppy in the house!

I have a writer friend who says that when she is writing she has one rule: no interruptions. The only exceptions are for fire, flood or blood. Woe betide anyone who interrupts her for any other reason. I admire such … Continue reading

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