Leslie A. Lindsay

September 11, 2023

Musings & Meaderings: Lynn Alsup on writing with the backdoor open, her experience as an adopted mom, plus StoryStudio Chicago Writer’s Festival, manuscript consultations, artist/conieussier collaboration
August 31, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: How to prep your manuscript and your beta-readers, plus Una Mannion on writing in long stretches, dreaming about the work, and more in TELL ME WHAT I AM, plus Girls Write Now, the creative life, where to submit, more
August 14, 2023

Musings & Meaderings: August might be a month to slow down and gaze to the fall, plus Jennifer Cramer-Miller talks about being an INCURABLE OPTIMIST, how she loves home design (totally relate!), being a homebody, and her favorite word…can you guess what it is?
July 25, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Shari Lapena, queen of domestic thrillers, says she aims for 1500 words a day, lives in a farmhouse and has recently taken up horseback riding, plus her new book, EVERYONE HERE IS LYING; beta-readers, literary ghost-writing workshops, experimental writing, journal-of-the-month subscriptions, more
July 14, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: What should your final edit look like? Plus Kristy Woodson Harvey talks about being an interior decorator if she wasn’t a writer (I can relate!), summer reads, a podcast, manuscript consultations, conferences, and poetic form
July 5, 2023

Musings & Meaderings: Will Anyone Care? Exploring Writer’s Doubt–Plus, Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre lands–about grief, the supernatural, English countryside–and it’s going to be a movie, plus writing from photographs, the podcast matchmaker, revamping your writing group, more
June 23, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Can we mother differently and still be good mothers? What about women’s intuition, ‘just knowing,’ envy and regrets? Ashley Audrain talks about that and more in The Whispers; plus visual poetry, micro CNF, more
June 6, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Christy Warren talks about writing in coffee shops–and being displaced–also PTSD, letting others see us in moments of tenderness; plus a revision workshop, another on obsessions, a big book of summer, recently published poetry, more
May 26, 2023

MUSINGS & MEANDERINGS: How to ask for feedback, Mental Health Awareness Month + debut novelist Mirinae Lee talks about 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster, the book that recently riveted her, being a ‘slow writer,’ summer writing workshop offerings, more
May 3, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: A lesson in advice from famous authors, writer’s block, Ann Putnam on her novel I WILL LEAVE YOU NEVER, writing and anthropology, Renee Gladman, Gabrielle Bates and visual narrative, stock images, more