By guest blogger Charlotte Rains Dixon I’ve never thought of myself as funny. And yet, my forthcoming novel (Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior, Vagabondage Press, Feb 2013) is funny. It’s not just me saying that, hoping it’s funny. The novel is actually funny, conceited as it feels to say. How do I know this? (Because there’s…
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j’s Journey: Getting personal
By Judy Clement Wall When I first decided to take myself seriously as a writer, I was writing fiction. Only fiction. I was in my thirties, in the midst of getting my creative writing degree, writing short stories for workshop classes (which, in hindsight, maybe wasn’t the best place to decide to take myself seriously…
Facing My Fear of Writing Through Pain
By guest blogger Annie Neugebauer I’d like to thank my guest today for courageously writing this post at my request. Annie wrote this on April 17, her dad’s birthday. He would have been 57. Last June, nearing the third anniversary of my dad’s death, I wrote a guest blog for Beyond the Margins called Writing…
Fear of Food Blogging
By Milli Thornton I’M USUALLY the one helping other writers with their fear of writing, so it was both poignant and instructional to recently be on the other end of the stick. My chock-full-of-personality friend (and one of my staff writer at Milliver’s Travels), Ann McElfresh, runs a wonderfully warm, yummy and inspiring food blog…
The I-Know-Too-Much Syndrome
By Milli Thornton A hyphenate is a person working or excelling in more than one craft or occupation, such as in the movie industry where you’ll see credits like this one: screenwriter-producer-director. But you don’t have to wait to be famous and successful to have a hyphenated writing career. You might have this one already:…
What I Would Write If I Wasn’t Afraid
By Jennifer Garam Once in a while I see a post on another writer’s blog that I just have to have. I was reading this post over on One Writeous Chick and it felt so perfect for our FoW readers, I asked my friend Jen if I could republish it here. She was happy to…
Fear of Not Having Fear
By guest blogger Patti Stafford I’ve managed to overcome a lot of fear in my life, but there’s some I still hold on to. I’ve started asking myself why; what’s the reason for not stepping out of my comfort zone in some areas. Is it possible we’re afraid to completely let go of fear? There’s…
The Making of Kid Stuph
By guest blogger Kenneth Hopkins I sat there for what seemed like hours, my finger poised precariously over the Enter key, reading the last few lines of my post again and again. I was confident in what I wrote but still I hesitated . . . why? This was my continuing saga in my decision…
Fear of Rejection
By guest blogger Patrick Ross Six weeks. Thirty-five states. Forty-three interviews. Six thousand, eight hundred miles. Four time zones. One speeding ticket. Those are some key statistics from my summer 2010 road trip across the United States. I headed out in a rented hybrid to capture on video creative individuals. My interview subjects included writers,…
