Randy Susan Meyers

writer’s groups

Behind One Writer’s Group Curtain (at The Boston Book Festival)

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                                    How does a writer, working alone, manage isolation? The initial spark of a novel and putting words to paper is a solitary thing—but even introverted authors need a band of brothers or sisters. Come hear the secrets of … Read more

Writer’s Groups: Don’t Drink and Read

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“No child could possibly be happy about her father moving out!” The above was said to me at a writing workshop, in a discussion about my then unpublished novel (it eventually became The Murderer’s Daughters.) The ‘child’ in question lived with a selfish, sarcastic, angry mother and an oft-drunk “mooning around” father. In the questioned scene … Read more