Women and Adversity
Women and Adversity: Kimberla Lawson Roby
December 10, 2015My own fiction concerns women overcoming obstacles, so about two years ago I decided I would start a new blog: Women and Adversity, A Blog for Writers. I have contacted women authors, agents and ...
A Blog for Writers: Women and Adversity, Suzy Barile
November 26, 2015A recent Webinar noted that only 4% of your Facebook friends see your posts and less then 50% of Twitter contacts see them, so it's crucial to repost. That's what I'm doing through the rest of ...
Women and Adversity: Candy Hannemann and Golf
November 12, 2015I don’t play golf, but the story of professional golfer Candy Hannemann, 35, attracted my attention. She came to Florida from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1997 to play in the IMG Academy. S ...
FIND YOUR WRITING NICHE: PERENNIALS
November 3, 2015Decades of tear sheets of my printed stories and rejected manuscripts filled my filing cabinet to capacity, and I had to make decisions: what to keep, what to trash. At the first run-through I onl ...
Women and Adversity: Theresa Flores and human trafficking
October 29, 2015Most people don’t understand human trafficking. Theresa Flores tells her story in “The Slave Across the Street.” As a 15-year old in Birmingham, Michigan, she unknowingly became a sex slave. ...
Women and Adversity: Mary Barra at GM
September 24, 2015Both Fortune and Forbes magazines print a list of the most powerful women in the world, and it’s worth a look at them. At http://fortune.com/ ...
Women and Adversity: Jean Auel and determination
September 10, 2015The sentence that attracted my attention describing Jean Auel’s rise to fame was that her path to success was not easy. Auel wrote the six-volumes of the Earth’s Children series. The novels fo ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Before I Die wall
September 1, 2015I’ve heard of the young adult novel, “Before I Die” by Jenny Downham, but haven’t read it. I’ve also heard of the “Before I Die” walls that have appeared around the world, but I never ...
Women and Adversity: Accepting a red eye
August 27, 2015It was an accident. I lifted my left hand to scratch the corner of my eye, and the long nail on my index finger nipped the white. Within minutes the entire white of my eye was beet red, ruby re ...
Women and Adversity: Carly Fiorina and the presidency
August 13, 2015What am impressive show Carly Fiorina displayed at the debate Aug. 6, and what a resounding response to Donald Trump’s inappropriate comments. Fiorina has had her share of adversity: being fi ...