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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

What made you decide to write this non-fiction work? This is an updated edition of my 2009 work. It’s the horrifying true story of a madman who blew up a school in Bath, MI on May 18, 1927. Read about the Bath School Massacre on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster The bombing killed 38 children and five adults,…… Continue reading #006 The Fascination of One Fact in Non-fiction: BATH MASSACRE: AMERICA’S FIRST SCHOOL BOMBING UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION by Arnie Bernstein.

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? This poem is the first poem in my new book The Optimist Shelters in Place from Harbor Editions coming out at the end of March. It’s a book of what…… Continue reading #348 Backstory of the Poem “THE OPTIMIST TAKES A PERSONALITY TEST” by Kimberly Ann Priest

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I started working on the stories in my book The Town of Whispering Dolls in June of 2015, and “Here” was the first story I wrote for the collection. I wrote it in…… Continue reading #282 Inside the Emotion of Fiction the short story “Resurrection” from the short story collection THE TOWN OF WHISPERING DOLLS by Susan Neville

Left. Cathryn Hankla in 2021. Credit Karen Messer-Bourgoin. Copyright by Cathryn Hankla 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 was running through the neighborhood on my regular circuit, having begun a “Runner” series, which basically encompasses…… Continue reading #347 Backstory of the Poem “Runner, Reversed” by Cathryn Hankla.

Left: Miriam Sagan in February 2022. Copyright by Miriam Sagan. 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? It was a pretty straightforward writing process. Although I wrote a lot during a visit to Japan (in residence as…… Continue reading #346 Backstory of the Poem “a north Korean missile” by Miriam Sagan

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? So many of us begin with emotion and progress, as Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads would have it, to evoke emotion in a state of tranquility by writing…… Continue reading #345 Backstory of the Poem “Start the Game” by Paul Jones

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? Some poems evolve slowly, others take forever stubbornly refusing to ever get it right. I picked this poem for 2 reasons. Firstly, it talks to that process of writing: Sometimes…… Continue reading #344 Backstory of the Poem THE BED by Les Wicks

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 journal, Jewish Currents, used to email a daily Jewish fact called “Jewdayo” that I subscribed to, stories about Jewish-related stuff associated with that date. June 7, as it turned…… Continue reading #343 Backstory of the Poem “JUSTICE” by Charles Rammelkamp

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? “No Egg, No Pony,” is one of two prose poems in my forthcoming book of poetry, Even When We Sleep, due out on March 1st, from Black Widow Press. https://blackwidowpress.com/…… Continue reading #342 Backstory of the Poem “NO EGG, NO PONY” by Dr. Marilyn Kallet

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? This is an older story so I’m not sure of the exact dates. But I believe I began it in late 2015 and finished it around mid-2016. Some of my stories take much…… Continue reading #281 Inside the Emotion of Fiction Short Story MAN IN THE NIGHT from the Short Story Collection THIS. THIS. THIS. IS. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. by Jennifer Wortman.

Stacia Levy in June of 2018. Credit and Copyright by Stacia Levy. What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? In looking through my past drafts, I see I began developing the story in December of 2018, so it’s been a…… Continue reading #280 Inside the Emotion of Fiction BLOOD IS THICKER by Stacia Levy.

What is the date you began writing this memoir and the date when you completed the memoir? I knew I wanted to write a book from a very young age. In fact, I opted against going to college so that I could hitchhike around the country gaining life experience and stories to write about, because…… Continue reading #027 The Magnification of one Memory in Memoir: Justin Sturn’s true story memoir DO NOT PICK UP HITCHHIKERS