A friend once asked me, “Can you, in a word, sum up what writing is like.” Tough question. Crazy might be the first, best word. Who in their right (or do I mean write) mind would take up writing? It’s an endless activity, mostly carried out in solitude, and the readers are the ones in the driver’s seat once you let it out into the world! … Yet, who doesn’t take up storytelling? Storytelling is how we explore our place in the world, and how we create new worlds. Who doesn’t want to know where they stand, and who doesn’t want to dream?
Today, I consider myself a writer, not because I am starting to publish, but because I care so much about how thoughts are phrased and whether it’s good enough, which it never is. My journey as a writer started, however, during my career as a scientist, and the scientist remains in me. I find myself occasionally looking at the act of writing as I perform it or as others do so. So, On Writing, explores the act of being …
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Celebrating Female Authors
As International Women’s Day approached, I asked friends to tell me the names of female authors on their bookshelves or who they liked to read.
Little did I realize the universe I would open up by asking the question. I am so inspired by the number of responses, which include some favorites and some new friends, that I’ve decided to share the list.
If we left your favorite female author off the list, be sure to leave a comment so we can add her [...]
