Tag Archive | novel
Beating Writerly Isolation
As I said in last week’s post about writing and mental health, isolation is a big problem for writers. It’s easier to find support at the beginning of your career. Writers groups and creative writing classes are a natural home for emerging writers. But when you publish a book, you move on to the next […]
Writing Around the Block
Since finishing my first novel, The Pink Cage, 15 months ago, the fields of my imagination have been a bit fallow. I’m not a very prolific writer and the next Big Idea is slow is coming. But I’ve still been scratching away in my notebook, keeping my imagination active, keeping the fields tilled to facilitate […]
Meet the Cast of The Pink Cage
I’ve been blowing my trumpet about my novel, The Pink Cage, so hard for the last few weeks that I’ve been forgetting to tell people what the novel’s about. And it’s about time I did. For me, novels are all about the characters, so allow me to introduce the cast of The Pink Cage Astrid […]