Writing Stories
Each episode of Writing Stories features an interview with a contemporary author about how her book went from an idea in her head to an object on a shelf. Join us on Writing Stories for honesty, struggle, and triumph, for writing community, publishing insight, and inspiration to persist in whatever difficult but meaningful journey you've chosen for yourself.
Writing Stories
Questioning Assumptions — Nicole Graev Lipson tells the story of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
Nicole Graev Lipson tells the story of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters. Along the way we talk about:
Sexism in publishing
The 'mother shelf'
Microscopic truth and Brenda Ueland
Writing from "low-grade embarrassment" and "both-and-ness"
Growing up with with the belief that you can be anyone you want to be and do anything you want to do (and how that might affect the ways you construct the challenges of motherhood in your thinking and writing)
Maternal Thinking by Sara Ruddick
Publishing with Chronicle Prism
Buy Mothers and Other Fictional Characters here