Month: March 2022

Middle: Pamela M. Topjian on March 5, 2022. Credit and Copyright by Pamela M. Topjian What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir?I started in 2018 and finished December of 2021. Pamela M. Topjian in 2018; and in December of 2021. Copyright by Pamela M. Topjian…… Continue reading #35 THE MAGNIFICATION OF ONE MEMORY IN MEMOIR “I Didn’t Come This Far To Only Come THIS Far” by Pamela M. Topjian

Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form? I love telling the story of the penultimate poem in my most recent collection, THE QUEEN OF QUEENS. The poem, “The Challenger,” recounts the speaker’s response to the Challenger disaster…… Continue reading #352 BACKSTORY OF THE POEM “The Challenger” by Jennifer Martelli

Diana Y. Paul’s THINGS UNSAID was published on October 13, 2015 by She Writes Press. To order THINGS UNSAID from She Writes Press click on the link below https://shewritespress.com/portfolio/diana-y-paul/        Psychologist Jules Foster has two siblings: sister Joanne Grant, who is favored by her parents over her two siblings, and brother Andrew, but she is…… Continue reading Christal Ann Rice Cooper Analysis on the fiction novel THINGS UNSAID by Diana Y. Paul.

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? I started writing my first memoir in 2014, but at the time, I never dreamed I’d be writing a full book. It started out as more of a way to document some of my adventures and to help…… Continue reading #34 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir: SUMMERS OF FIRE: A MEMOIR OF ADVENTURE, LOVE, AND COURAGE by Linda Strader

From LEFT to RIGHT: Randall’s father Mickey; Randall in February of 2022; Randall’s father Mickey with his sister Vivian. Both Vivian and Mickey committed suicide. Copyright by Randall Gilliland What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? I began about a year ago and am 20,000…… Continue reading #033 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir: BANG by Randall Gilliland

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? Actually, I started this memoir year ago, I don’t remember the exact date but I’m very sure I started writing it on 2020 and I finished it in April 2021. Faleeha Hassan in January of 2020. Copyright by…… Continue reading #032 The Magnification of one Memory in Memoir: WAR AND ME by Faleeha Hassan.

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? The book has an extended beginning. Four months after my sister (Nancy) died, my niece Lara sent me a mysterious box she found in my sister’s closet. Wrapped in a bright blue ribbon and labeled, “Raymond’s Treasure Box,”…… Continue reading #031 The Magnification of one Memory in Memoir: UNBOXING RAYMOND by Len Boswell

Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form? Most of what follows is conception, not craft. When my partner and I first moved to rural Indiana, we were part of a program whose goal was to reestablish warm…… Continue reading #351 Backstory of the Poem “Rescue” by Jessica Reed

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I started writing THE OPERATOR in February, 2017, and finished the first draft in May, 2017. Then there were revisions and more revisions with my agent. It sold to William Morrow in, I…… Continue reading #286 INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION “THE OPERATOR” by Gretchen Berg

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? I began working on my memoir in March of 2020 and completed it in August 2021. Unforgiving Pain is book one of four. (Three other books will be released one at a time.) Where did you do most…… Continue reading #030 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir: UNFORGIVING PAIN by Mary A. Hilson.

Left: Caleb Tankersley in 2022. Copyright by Caleb Tankersley. What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? My short story collection is called Sin Eaters, and the stories stretch over a wide range of time. The earliest story in the collection…… Continue reading #285 Inside the Emotion of Fiction Short Story “Swamp Creatures” from the Short Story Collection SIN EATERS by Caleb Tankersley

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? I began writing my memoir ‘An Innocent Girl’ in January 2010 and completed it June 2020. My husband and I were fostering teenage boys at the time so I fitted in writing when I was able. LEFT: Andy…… Continue reading #29 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir: AN INNOCENT GIRL by Christine Temlett

What made you decide to write this non-fiction work? It’s a period that has always fascinated me—a time that set our country on its present course. And it was a natural “prequel” to my last book, “Ike and Dick”—about the relationship between President Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Click to order IKE AND DICK from Amazon…… Continue reading 007 The Fascination Of One Fact In Nonfiction “The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of An Ordinary Man, 1945-1953 by Jeffrey Frank.

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? Ron, my partner of 31 years, passed away near the end of March 2021. From the time he was in Hospice, the Chaplain advised me to address my grief by writing. What first poured out was poetry. Much…… Continue reading #028 The Magnification of one Memory in Memoir: Mary Deal’s poem “The Wounded Bird” from her memoir GRIEF IS LOVE: A MEMOIR OF SURVIVING BEREAVEMENT.

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I honestly don’t have any idea. It was definitely in 2020 and usually a book takes me about 90 days, so somewhere in the late Spring into early Summer, I’d guess. I don’t…… Continue reading #284 Inside the Emotion of Fiction WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION by E.J. Copperman

Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form. A friend of mine, Kathryn, was in Praque on a short holiday with her husband and she sent me a postcard. The picture on the postcard was of an Oil…… Continue reading #350 Backstory of the Poem “Joy” by Anne Walsh Donnelly

Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form? “Donation Street” is an example of a poetry that I do maintain is cubism (after the Cubism in the arts) and belongs to a sequence of cubist poems that I…… Continue reading #349 Backstory of the Poem “DONATION STREET” by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.

Middle: Luke Rolfes in February 2022. Copyright by Luke Rolfes. What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? The original draft was written on Friday, September 11th, 2020 from a prompt given to me by a group of writers. I finished…… Continue reading #283 Inside the Emotion of Fiction Short Story “There, There” from the Short Story Collection IMPOSSIBLE NAKED LIFE by Luke Rolfes