I took part in Fierce Female Reads in February. This was a collaboration of bloggers who want to start conversations about females in literature. I discussed the fierce females in historical fiction and how women could be strong and confident in the past. Now, we are excited to be announcing the first “Fierce Female Fall …
Writing prompts are a great way to get the creative juices flowing. Think about one of the following and free write whatever comes into your head. These can be used for flash fiction, short stories or even a novel or memoir. Feel free to link back to this post. I have added below some free …
Today, I am discussing women who write science fiction. Although science fiction is strictly about a future that uses technology, my definition for this post will include dystopian and speculative fiction. The genre has traditionally been male-dominated and the female main characters, few and far between. With more modern female sci fi writers coming onto …
Stories set in the past force characters to their limits. Death is a close companion in historical fiction, whether from battle wounds, childbirth or disease. So we see novels about daring feats of bravery, born of desperation. Or books about how much the characters can bear. In some of these stories, the women characters withstand …