Author Ginelle Testa has a beautiful story of writing to heal. Check out her new memoir, Make a Home Out of You. by Ginelle Testa Whether you’re writing a memoir, a personal essay, or even fiction tinged with real-world experience, stories can evoke feelings about choices you’ve made throughout yourContinue Reading
I remember when I published my first novel. It was the culmination of much hard work and so many dreams. I love Ann’s story, here, about how she found her way to her first publication. If you want to be inspired, read on! by Ann Bancroft I started writing inContinue Reading
Author and musician Gregory Duncan shares his journey from trauma to authorship, including the ups and downs on the way. Writing can seem like having an illness. The writer carries around something that mainly they are trying to get rid of, like a bad cough that won’t go away. IfContinue Reading
by Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt In 1986, social psychologist, Dr. James Pennebaker began an experiment that would transform mind/body medicine for years to come. He asked people who had experienced a traumatic event to write. One group (control group) was asked to write daily about superficial topics for four days. The otherContinue Reading
Author Linda Sienkiewicz isn’t new to writing about suicide. But this time, she channeled her love for her son through poetry, and found a new creative outlet for her grief as well as her cherished memories. by Linda Sienkiewicz I never sat down with the intention to write poems aboutContinue Reading
Have you tried writing through trauma? Find out how you might turn those early writings into publishable stories. by Nanette Thorsen-Snipes The year was 1975—a year fraught with fear. During an argument one Friday night, my former husband pulled a gun on me, and as I watched in horror, heContinue Reading
by Wendi Lindenmuth In July of 2015, I hosted a cycling ride in my community that connected two of our most popular gravel trails in Polk County, Wisconsin. We decided to ride about 80 miles total, to our destination and then back to the trailhead where we parked. Many ofContinue Reading
In the midst of this coronavirus pandemic, we’re all looking for ways to cope. The situation started getting real for me a couple of weeks ago when during a grocery-shopping trip I found the shelves nearly empty of toilet paper. It seemed odd to me as at that time, ourContinue Reading
by Jo Ann Simon I lost the love of my life, my second husband Tom, to ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). We had a storybook love story that most just dreamed about. It started with a tick bite, Lyme disease and then a death sentence. We made the most of everyContinue Reading
by Rebecca Whitehead Munn I have always held a dream of writing a book; I just didn’t know what it would be about until I faced deep loss. I also did not ever imagine I would be facing a divorce with a two- and four-year-old when I learned my motherContinue Reading
by Patty Somlo I discovered that writing could be healing decades before starting this book. At the beginning, though, that knowledge was unconscious. I first started writing as a freelance—and later staff—journalist. While my initial attraction to journalism was that I wanted to write, I soon discovered that I enjoyedContinue Reading
by Beth Castrodale In late 2014 and early 2015, both of my elderly parents died within four months. Although their deaths were far from unexpected, I found myself unable to forge ahead on the novel I’d been working on over the previous two years. Against the loss of my parents,Continue Reading