Leslie A. Lindsay

writing life

January 3, 2025

Musings & Meanderings: This is it. Art lives on…it’s just not going to be here anymore
November 3, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Mark Haber on his new release, LESSER RUINS, how he likes the early-morning dream state for writing; plus me in 6th grade English, time and residencies
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
August 2, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: A new project–I could use your help! Plus, Cynthia Reeves on THE LAST WHALER, the power of doing it now, old photographs, writing craft, reading recommendations, and more
July 13, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Can You tell a Writer what to Write about? (No). Also: where to submit, love languages, books about books, how to write without ego, and Lauren Aliza Green on THE WORLD AFTER ALICE
June 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Writing rituals, the meaning of home, recommending books to writers, and what’s behind the rejections + Sheila Sundar on HABITATIONS
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
January 8, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Determining your obsessions and what’s a chronic conflict, anyway? Plus, Kate Brody on her debut thriller, RABBIT HOLE; top reads of 2023, writing a historical novel, distance in memoir, poetry, art & architecture
December 4, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Jami Nakamura Lin prefers longhand horizontal writing in large unlined notebooks (same!), plus checking-in on your writing goals, wrapping up 2023, book recs, honing your craft, more
November 20, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Susan Blumberg-Kason talks to me about her new book, BERNARDINE’S SHANGAI SALON, how she wrote near her kids, how dedications get ‘lost,’ and the literary scenes of 1930s; plus reviving a manuscript, curating a writing community, a family ravaged by mental illness in Meg Kissinger’s memoir, more