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Joanna Wallace studied law before working as a commercial litigation solicitor in London. She now runs a family business and lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, four children, and two dogs. She was partly inspired to write You'd Look Better as a Ghost, her debut, following her father's diagnosis of early onset dementia. Follow her on X (Twitter).
Joanna Wallace
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In this interview, Joanna discusses how opening up about her love of writing helped fine-tune her debut novel, You’d Look Better as a Ghost, her advice for writers, and more!
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Naguib Mahfouz was a Nobel Prize winner for literature, and a marked man.
I met the nonagenarian author at a secret location when I was in Egypt researching a novel. Some years before, a fanatic had stabbed him in the neck for alleged blasphemy in a book that the assailant hadn’t bothered to read. Instead of spending the remainder of his life cowering in isolation, Mahfouz arranged to meet with friends at shifting locations around Cairo every week. His biographer Raymond Stock brought me to one of those meetings, in a back room of the Shepherd’s Hotel bar, and that was how I found myself talki ..read more
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Before we jump into today's poetry prompt, I just want to note that this will be the final Wednesday Poetry Prompt until May. That's, of course, because we'll be starting up the 17th Annual April Poem-A-Day Challenge on Monday during which I'll be sharing a prompt and starter poem every day of April. Find the guidelines and get your daily prompt here.
For this week's prompt, write a prepper poem. My first thought with the word "prepper" is someone who is prepping for the end of the world or some giant cataclysm. And yet, most of us prep on a daily basis in other ways. I prep my kids for school ..read more
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My book Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published distills my years of experience as a magazine editor, journalist, and writing teacher into 352 tip, trick, and strategy filled pages of the essay writing tips, pitching strategies, reporting tactics, and editor intel that helps me and my students get the attention of editors and get published.
To see how I maximized my book launch week, check it out here.
But before my book was published, I had to lay some groundwork. Here's what I did three months pre-launch to set myself up for success. It proved s ..read more
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In my life among writers, I’ve found there are two types of artistic doubt. Let’s call them Creative Doubt and Meta Doubt. While both are inevitable, they are quite different from each other. The first is helpful and a spur toward greater art. The second is something else.
Creative Doubt
Let’s start on the positive. Creative Doubt is any doubt that has to do with the project at hand.
For example: You’re in the middle of writing a novel, but you can’t get your first act to work. You tinker with your character’s motivations, you map out their backstory, you move around the inciting incident. Not ..read more
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For today's prompt, write about someone whose livelihood relies on their hands.
Post your response (500 words or fewer) in the comments below ..read more
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Alina Khawaja is an author from Ontario, Canada, with a never-ending love-hate relationship with the snow. She is a graduate from the University of Toronto, where she majored in English and double minored in History and Creative Writing and is now pursuing a master’s degree in the Literacy of Modernity at Ryerson University. Alina can be found studying, writing, or bingeing k-dramas when she is not sleeping. Follow her on X (Twitter) and Instagram.
Alina Khawaja
In this interview, Alina discusses how a lifetime of reading romance led her to writing her own adult romance, Maya’s Laws of Love, h ..read more
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In this week’s roundup brought to us by Script magazine, writing coach Jenna Avery provides insight on how a writer can tap into and focus on their personal writing voice. Plus, Jeanne Bowerman returns with Balls of Steel™, read interviews with Palm Royale creator Abe Sylvia and Sleeping Dogs filmmaker Adam Cooper, and so much more!
Pathos and Character: An Interview with “Palm Royale” Creator and Showrunner Abe Sylvia
Abe Sylvia; Palm Royale; AppleTV
Abe Sylvia discusses how he approached adapting the book, discovering the pathos and character, how Kristen Wiig was key to l ..read more
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Heather Gudenkauf is the critically acclaimed author of several novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Weight of Silence and The Overnight Guest. She lives in Iowa with her husband and children. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
Heather Gudenkauf
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In this interview, Heather discusses the inspiration behind her new thriller novel, Everyone Is Watching, her advice for other writers, and more!
Name: Heather Gudenkauf
Literary agent: Marianne Merola
Book title: Everyone Is Watching
Publisher: Park Row
Release date: March 26, 2024
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"Write what you know" is typical advice for authors. As a woman in STEM and a software entrepreneur, I’m intimately aware of the landscape, even though I don’t fill the traditional roles of programmer, engineer, or medical mathematician. That didn’t hinder me from crafting a narrative around a female engineer who develops an ethical artificial intelligence, with a narrative core focusing on the AI's pursuit to protect children.
(On Writing Representation in Fiction.)
Statistics reveal a stark underrepresentation in STEM fields, with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics reporting that women repr ..read more