Leslie A. Lindsay

writing craft

October 14, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: What happens when you see the ghost of your mother in your room? And it’s been years since she died and you return to your hometown? Cynthia Swanson talks about her new book, ANYONE BUT HER, how intuition, knowledge, and grief intertwine, plus where to write, how to write, embracing change
March 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Quarter-Year Check-In, Writing Advice, Julia Malye’s new historical fiction PELICAN GIRLS, about Baleine Brides & survival, how she would be a visual artist if not a writer; do’s & don’ts of writerly self-promotion, how to write for Modern Love, more
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
April 17, 2023

MUSINGS & MEANDERINGS: How (horseback) riding & writing are similar, according to Courtney Maum, author of THE YEAR OF THE HORSES, plus Beth Ann Mathews on her memoir, DEEP WATERS; books on motherhood; playlists, ruins, ending your story, where to submit, and more
March 6, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Only your writing friends understand, finding your peeps, DISPATCHES FROM PUERTO NOWHERE, keeping track of your writing/creative time part 2, retreats & workshops
February 5, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Residencies and Workshops, writing anywhere, writing fragmented memoirs, Rebecca Makkai on boarding schools and murders, and so much more
December 15, 2022

Musings & Meanderings: What writers need, where to submit, an archive of author interviews, book lists to tempt, building teen confidence, more
December 8, 2022

Musings & Meanderings: Taking risk with your art, going hybrid, planning your 2023 writing year, classes and workshops, where to submit, author interviews, reading recommendations
September 2, 2022

Musings & Meanderings: Are you always ready to write? Jeff Seitzer is, plus rest/reset/resort, THE FUN MASTER, where to submit, miniature love, more
June 27, 2022

Musings & Meanderings: Beverly Armento’s memoir SEEING EYE GIRL about her blind, mentally ill mother, summer doldrums, reading recs, poetry to inspire writing, and last chance to nab a copy of SPEAKING OF APRAXIA