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MIDDLE: Peter E. Murphy in August of 2022. Copyright by Peter E. Murphy. 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 symbol of Wales, where I was born, is a fire-breathing dragon, a creature both fierce and…… Continue reading #390 Backstory of the Poem “Mean Time” from the chapbook collection MEAN TIME by Peter E. Murphy

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? Murder in the Marsh began as a long short story quite a few years ago, then morphed into a novel over time. I’d say I’ve had this piece in novel form for over…… Continue reading #330 INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION “Murder in the Marsh” by Kevin Carey.

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 it in September 2021 and finished it in April 2022. That’s about the average time it takes for me to complete a first draft. Where did you do most of…… Continue reading #329 Inside the Emotion of Fiction THE CHILD BETWEEN US by Alison Ragsdale

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? Since this was a novella, it’s shorter (by about two thirds) than my typical novels. I started writing it on Fe. 18, 2021, and finished it on March 18, 2021. Cheryl Bolen in…… Continue reading #328 Inside the Emotion or Fiction the novella THE WALLFLOWER’S CHRISTMAS WISH by Cherry Bolen.

MIDDLE: Clint Margrave in 2018 when he wrote “Once I Shared a Wall with God”.”Once I Shared a Wall with God” was first published in The Threepenny Review. Copyright by Clint Margrave Inside the apartment. Credit and Copyright by Clint Margrave. Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment…… Continue reading #389 Backstory of the Poem “Once I Shared a Wall with God” from the poetry collection VISITOR by Clint Margrave

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? This is a collection of short stories, most of which were written in the nineties.  Collating and revising them occupied much of the summer of 2019.  One of the most interesting aspects of…… Continue reading #327 INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION the short story “Changeling” from the short story collection Turing’s Graveyard Stories by Terence Hawkins

LEFT: Kathie Giorgio with her husband and daughter Olivia in 2015. Kathie Giorgio: “The photo on the cover was taken by my husband. And Olivia and I are in the pages. This book is an entire love affair of a family who believed in the impossible.”    Olivia at age three. Copyright by Kathie Giorgio.…… Continue reading #388 Backstory of the Poem “Watching in Awe” by Olivia Giorgio from the poetry collection OLIVIA IN FIVE, SEVEN, FIVE AUTISM IN HAIKU by Kathie Giorgio.

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 its final form? This is the very first poem I wrote after learning about my brother’s lung cancer diagnosis last year. The poem is bound by that sense of shock that happens…… Continue reading #387 Backstory of the Poem “Going Halves” from the poetry collection FAIRY TALE by Gabrielle Langley.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? I began writing in January 2018 and completed the book in July 2021. Barbara Rubin in January of 2018 and July of 2021. Copyright by Barbara Rubin. Where did you do most of your writing for this memoir? …… Continue reading #56 The Magnification of One Memory in Memoir “More Than You Can See- A Mother’s Memoir” by Barbara Rubin.