ORIGINS: Joan Schweighardt’s Under the Blue Moon
In today’s ORIGINS, Joan Schweighardt discusses the origins of her novel, Under the Blue Moon, which is available for preorder (publication date: June 10, 2023) from Five Directions Press. Two […]
In today’s ORIGINS, Joan Schweighardt discusses the origins of her novel, Under the Blue Moon, which is available for preorder (publication date: June 10, 2023) from Five Directions Press. Two […]
In today’s ORIGINS, Eric D. Goodman discusses the origins of his novel, The Color of Jadeite, recently released from Apprentice House Books. The first spark is almost always an idea […]
For me, typically, story ideas are like rainbow trout: elusive, finicky, difficult to find and even harder to bring in once you’ve found them.
There is a group of us that meets every two weeks, give or take a month, in a low-lit bar attached to a liquor store.
The art of telling a story is often found in making connections between disparate things.
I realized that the heart of the story was not the cranberries or the road trip or Thanksgiving dinner, but what was missing.
History is nothing if not a series of revisions.
I am one of those people who thinks about finding dead bodies.
My writing isn’t governed by many rules, but I have a policy holds that when something falls easily out of the sky onto the page, I keep it, dressing up its impact from the landing, if needed.
“A Stone’s Throw from Home” was born out of frustration.