I wrote my first novel after my husband was diagnosed with cancer. We’d barely started our life together when he was diagnosed nine months after our wedding. Emotional and confused, I started reading. That led to writing. That led to years of experimentation with different types of writing and editing. I started writing as a […]
An idea storms your consciousness. You scramble to jot it down before it dissipates. What do you reach for? Do you type that brilliant line of dialogue on your phone or do you reach for your trusty notepad? If so, what kind of notebook is it? Are the pages lined or blank? Do you jot […]
To be honest, I began writing because I wanted attention. I was a precocious six-year-old, reading at a level above the other kids in first grade, and when I managed to write a funny story – it would have been no longer than three or four sentences back then – the freckled, pig-tailed girl in […]
I was lying on my back, deathly ill, in Kathmandu, Nepal. I had contracted a rather devious strain of the Asian flu. My fever came and went. My body was weak and my mind, fuzzy. I slid to the furthest side of the bed. The day’s last ray of sunlight warmed my face. I looked […]
Warren Adler talks ageism and staying in the creative ballgame in an exclusive interview with Pfizer for their popular GET OLD campaign At 87, the author of more than 50 novels, including the 1981 tumultous divorce classic, The War of the Roses(which he adapted into a screenplay of the same name, and the 1989 film […]
I didn’t know how to socialize well. It was just easier to create worlds of my own where I was cool and heroic. Before I could even write well I was making up stories with my toy cars. Back then there were no toy spaceships so I used hairbrushes, building blocks, and my harmonica. At […]
Growing up in the 1920s in a Taiwanese farming village, Grandma was destined to work in the rice fields for life. When I was four and started to learn Chinese phonetic symbols, Grandma asked me to tutor her. I taught her everything I knew. After a hard day’s work, she slouched over her antique Singer […]
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