Month: October 2022

MIDDLE: Kristi holds a copy of the book Out of Time: True Paranormal Encounters, in which her short memoir piece, “Floor Song Tango,” appears. The book was published in October 2022 by Timber Ghost Press and contains twenty-six true paranormal tales by various writers. Copyright by Kristi Petersen Schoonover What is the title of your…… Continue reading #63 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir: the short piece “Floor Song Tango” by Kristi Petersen Schoonover from the memoir short story collection Out of Time: True Paranormal Encounters

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? “The Butterfly Effect” was written in a Writing As Healing workshop run through the U.C. Davis Cancer Center. Along with the other workshop participants, I was sitting with my laptop…… Continue reading #386 Backstory of the Poem “The Butterfly Effect” from the poetry collection Chimera, by Brad Buchanan.

FAR LEFT: Evelyn in October of 2022. Copyright by Evelyn Kohl LaTorre Copyright by Evelyn Kohl LaTorre What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? Began around September, 2006; published, August, 2020. Where did you do most of your writing for this memoir?  And please describe in…… Continue reading #62 THE MAGNIFICATION OF ONE MEMORY IN MEMOIR “Between Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir” by Evelyn Kohl LaTorre

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 wanted to write a collection of poems that would explore my childhood, one which was fraught with angst and which eventually not only led me into a career in…… Continue reading #385 Backstory of the Poem “Boxes in the Attic” from the poetry collection COURSING by Kenneth Weene

MIDDLE: J.D. Trafford in October of 2022. Copyright by J.D. Trafford. What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I began Merchants Bridge in December of 2019 and completed the first draft the spring of 2021. Then it went through multiple…… Continue reading #326 INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION “Merchants Bridge” by J.D. Trafford

MIDDLE: Maria James-Thiaw in August 2022. Copyright by Maria James-Thiaw 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? The poem ‘Terra Rocks’ had a lot of different names. Mother Rocks, Mother Terra, Mother Earth, to name a few.…… Continue reading #384 Backstory of the Poem “Terra Rocks” by Maria James-Thiaw

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? I started writing in September 2017 and finished in March 2020. It took me 2.5 years because I also teach elementary school. I’ve been a teacher for 24 years. Where did you do most of your writing for…… Continue reading #061 The Magnification of one Memory in Memoir: THE SAD SON by Claire B. Josephine.

What made you decide to write this non-fiction work? I was approached by Allison Gilbert, a former CNN producer who’d been researching Elsie’s life for years but needed help turning Elsie’s story into a book. Julia Scheeres in the Fall of 2017, when she received the call from Allison Gilbert. Copyright by Julia Scheeres. After…… Continue reading #12 The Fascination of One Fact in Nonfiction “Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman” by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert.