What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I began working on The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Lane in May 2020, right in the middle of the lockdown of the pandemic. It was a time when everyone on the planet…… Continue reading #325 Inside the Emotion of Fiction “The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Lane” by Raymond Benson.
Month: September 2022
#60 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir “Another Day In Paradise” by Karen Telling.
What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? I started writing an account of my spinal surgery in around 2012, 3 years after the event. I didn’t know it would eventually become part of the book but I wanted to record it for myself. I forgot…… Continue reading #60 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir “Another Day In Paradise” by Karen Telling.
#324 Inside the Emotion of Fiction WE ARE ALL TOGETHER by Richard Fulco
What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I began writing WE ARE ALL TOGETHER immediately after the publication of my first novel THERE IS NO END TO THIS SLOPE in March 2014. However, I went on a two-year hiatus from…… Continue reading #324 Inside the Emotion of Fiction WE ARE ALL TOGETHER by Richard Fulco
#383 Backstory of the Poem “Understanding a habit is seeing what company it keeps” by Diane Raptosh
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 wrote the above sonnet, the fourth in my new chapbook, Hand Signs from Eternity’s Yurt, when, as usual, I was feeling frustrated by the workings of power in America.…… Continue reading #383 Backstory of the Poem “Understanding a habit is seeing what company it keeps” by Diane Raptosh
#323 INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION “WHAT SHE FOUND” by Robert Dugoni.
What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I began writing What She Found approximately one year ago. The first draft usually takes three to six months. But with editing, including developmental editing, copy editing etcetera the book is usually published…… Continue reading #323 INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION “WHAT SHE FOUND” by Robert Dugoni.
#59 The Magnification of One Memory In Memoir “The Woman with Three Elbows” by Rachael Ikins
What is the title of your memoir? “The Woman with Three Elbows” while it is about my whole life, it concentrates on a decade on the 90s when I was misdiagnosed with mental illness, medicated almost to death and what happened to me after I got off all the drugs. It is a story about…… Continue reading #59 The Magnification of One Memory In Memoir “The Woman with Three Elbows” by Rachael Ikins
#58 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir “The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly” by Kwan Kew Lai
What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? This is a difficult question. I don’t remember when I started writing it, it could be a few years after I left medical academia at the end of 2006. I am guessing 2008 but I did not write…… Continue reading #58 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir “The Girl Who Taught Herself to Fly” by Kwan Kew Lai
#57 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir “The Shell and the Octopus” by Rebecca Stirling.
What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? Seriously in 2018, finishing in 2020. However, I wrote another story before this, for a friend that has many of the same elements, and that took five years. Rebecca Stirling with her daughter in 2018; and her son…… Continue reading #57 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir “The Shell and the Octopus” by Rebecca Stirling.