Tag: writing
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Behind the Scenes: My Fiction Writing Process
What’s Your Process? Readers, especially aspiring writers, often ask authors this question: “What’s your process?” A fellow student in my community college fiction class asked me this question, and I became a deer in the headlights. I grappled for a response, so I thought about what I did on my recent publication. Kernel of an…
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Book Review and Writing Lessons from The Irish Goodbye
How lucky am I? The book group I’m in featured the author of the book we just read: The Irish Goodbye. Author Heather Aimee O’Neill is getting much acclaim, and Jenna Bush Hager chose Heather’s debut novel as the Today Show pick. Not only were we treated to Heather reading parts of her novel in…
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From Rejections to Good Reviews: An Indie Author Celebrates Wins and Losses
Being a writer is great. The author gets to create their own world with imaginary everything, and they can exert complete control. Where else can one do that? Most writers want to be read, though, and with that there’s the desire to be published. An author quickly learns that acceptance rates at literary magazines are…
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The Long and Winding Road to Self-Publishing
You’ve got a novel in you How many times have you heard someone say they’re working on a novel? Or more likely, that they have a book in them, and they just need the time. It’s a familiar story because I used to be one of those people. I even started a book once, but…
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The Unfriending
The writing prompt for this story was: write a story with a character pouring out their emotions. “I can’t be your friend anymore.” I stood next to Helen’s red front door as her facial muscles migrated from a forced smile to shock. She didn’t like surprise visits, even from her best friend. “What’s wrong?” said…
Kristy Schnabel 