“…just like a tree, I’m deeply influenced by the ground I’m planted in and whatever blows by….”
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The writer focuses on practicing choice, keeping a vision and seeing how positive and negative experiences are vital to success.
The Recovering Creative
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“I’m a manipulative observer—a bit like Shakespeare’s Puck.” -James Gough JAMES GOUGH has been an actor and is an artist. In addition, his debut novel, CLOAK, was recently published by WiDō Publishing. ♦ MEREDITH: When you sit down to write, are you in charge? What I mean is this: are you the scribe or the master
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The therapist, author and coach helps us explore the eternal question: Do you want to be a “writer” or do you want to write?
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The author talks about what she likes best about fiction writing, being a planner and how she gains perspective on rejection—the inner and the outer kind.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The writer tells about the danger in what he finds funny and how writing erases fear.
The Recovering Creative
The writer muses on finding opportunities when you’re stuck, the work it takes to move beyond inspiration and letting go at the right time. Barbara Bietz is an award-winning children’s author, magazine writer, book reviewer and chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee. Her YA novel, Like a Maccabee (Yaldah Publishing), was a Midwest
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The author riffs about knowing and not knowing, being scared and being brave and the true rewards of being a worker bee.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
“Learning to have a “lower standard” for myself as a writer has helped me to write more and probably, in the long run, to write better.”
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The very styles of writing that I struggle with the most are also the types of writing that I can’t live without.
The Recovering Creative
I’m listening to THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss. I. LOVE. IT. And so, I started wondering about the author’s process. I went to her website. There, under “Press,” she talks in part about just that, her writing process and her thought process about writing. Under the heading: “On Doubt,” which is a five-graph
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
I think truth in writing often comes from a place that’s deeply threatening and scary. I won’t pretend I’m brave enough to go there on a regular basis, but it’s one of my goals.