Freelance Writing Direct chats with author Bonnie Friedman about writing immersive fiction, moving from essays to novels, creating psychologically complex characters, writing obsession and intimacy, sustaining suspense, crafting irresistible chapter endings, finding the right publisher, and why literary friendships can change a writing career.…
Freelance Writing Direct chats with author and teacher Brenda Miller about hermit crab essays, braided essays, finding emotional truth through form, writing with playfulness, and more.…
Freelance Writing Direct chats with Courtney Kocak about writing a memoir in essays, finding the structure for deeply personal stories, using hybrid forms including poetry and letters, writing honestly about Hollywood and ambition, deciding what to cut from a manuscript, navigating rejection, publishing with an independent press, building an author platform, and why becoming your own gatekeeper may be one of the most important lessons for writers today.…
What happens when you limit yourself to exactly 70 words? Deborah Sosin joins Freelance Writing Direct o discuss her memoir in essays, Escape Velocity, composed of seventy 70-word stories.…
Freelance Writing Direct chats with Tiffany Graham Charkosky, author of Living Proof: How Love Defied Genetic Legacy, about family history, genetic testing, motherhood, loss, dual timelines, scene, dialogue, and the revision process behind her memoir.…
Freelance Writing Direct chats with Dionne Ford about the inspiration behind her memoir Go Back and Get It, the challenges of researching family history, blending personal narrative with historical investigation, and how writers can uncover and tell the stories that shape their lives.…
Freelance Writing Direct chats with Rachel Weaver, author of Dizzy, about writing while feeling ill, building a compelling braided memoir, using metaphor to illuminate experience, and transforming a deeply personal story into a universal one.…
Freelance Writing Direct chats with bestselling author Wade Rouse and his husband and jack-of-all-trades Gary Edwards about Wade’s moving new novel, That’s What Friends Are For, the inspiration behind its unforgettable characters, and why friendship, found family, and second chances matter more than ever.…
Estelle Erasmus chats with the author of a Prescription for Burnout, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein about healing through storytelling, creatively dealing with emotional exhaustion, narrative medicine, the burden of healthcare providers and more.…
Freelance Writing Direct chats with Author, Vanessa Hua about her new novel Coyoteland, writing multiple characters with multiple POVs, finding the tension in scenes, braiding in a character’s wants, showing the humanity in people and more.…
Estelle Erasmus chats with author Jacque Gorelick about her memoir Map of a Heart and they cover how to braid timelines effectively, how to balance scene and reflection, and how to write about emotionally charged experiences without losing the reader, plus the challenges of writing about family estrangement, the visceral experience of reliving trauma on the page, and the importance of honoring truth while maintaining compassion.…
