Show up, love the process, don’t follow trends: insider tips on how to write a book
Here to help … (from left) How to Write a Book hosts Sharmaine Lovegrove, Elizabeth Day, Nelle Andrew and Sara Collins. Two novelists, an agent and a publisher each share their top three golden rules for publishing a book Does everyone really have a book in them? And if you want to write one, where […]
Angélica Lopes: On the Importance of Research in Historical Fiction
Angélica Lopes is a novelist, screenwriter, and journalist from Rio de Janeiro with over 20 years of experience in writing fiction. Her dramatic vein came from writing Brazilian soap operas, known worldwide for attracting millions of viewers daily. She is also an award-winning author of YA novels and has written scripts for cinema, TV series, […]
The Hard Art of Seeing Your Own Writing Through Rose-Colored Glasses
Sometimes when I write, I wear heart-shaped, rose-colored glasses. Truly: they were $9.99, online. It’s one of the exercises my therapist Jess, who is the greatest therapist in the world, has prescribed to me in order to shift my way of thinking about my writing. And since I’m primarily an essayist and memoirist, when I […]
Writing Prompts for New Parents
Take a walk in your neighborhood while pushing your baby who refuses to nap in a stroller. Name five things you see, four things you hear, three things you smell, two things you touch, and one thing you taste. Repeatedly pick up the pacifier from the trash-strewn sidewalk and rub it with a disinfecting wipe. […]