Battling Bias Complicity
How Yi Shun Lai advocates for marginalized voices. Yi Shun Lai is a writer, editor, columnist for the Writer magazine, an MFA program instructor at Bay Path and Southern New…
Category: Writing
Review of THE BYLINE BIBLE by Susan Shapiro
Writing professor Susan Shapiro is a master in the art of the essay—both writing them and selling them to paying outlets. In her book, THE BYLINE BIBLE—Get Published in 5…
Book Review: Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
In this textured tale about Punjabi Indian women and sexual taboos, Balli Kaur Jaswal masterfully juxtaposes modern and traditional, West and East, and each generation’s definition of oppression, with a murder…
Double-Spaces or Not? That Is the Question
OK. I admit it. I’m old-school. I learned to include two spaces after each period. Then after following this golden rule for thirty years (I know, this really dates me),…
The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 14
Since I’d decided to write about reincarnation, what prior life would my heroine experience? The practice of child labor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries really intrigues me,…
Visualization and immersion: How authors make fiction come alive
Ever wonder how authors make characters so realistic? Like you could walk around in their skin and understand exactly what they’re thinking? My article in The Writer magazine discusses two…
Funny Blog Post About How Writers Handle Rejection (and it includes cats!)
via The nine stages of facing rejection as a writer
The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 13
In August 2011, it was finally time for me to start another project. Another novel. I wanted to write about something totally new. It’s fun and exhilarating to think…