Ask the Author: Barbara Artson
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Barbara Artson
Discovering parts of myself -- that I had previously not known: opinions, thoughts, wishes, fantasies -- that come to life when I sit down to write.
Barbara Artson
I draw inspiration from many venues: from an article I might read in the newspaper, or a story that sometime relates over the dinner table, and even one that comes to me in a dream
Barbara Artson
Sharon Kay Penman's Time and Change, The File by Timothy Garton Ash, and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens.
Barbara Artson
Remember the old adage about how one gets to play the piano at Carnegie Hall (practice, practice, practice)? My advice for aspiring writers is: write, write, write.
Barbara Artson
After I retired from my clinical practice in psychoanalysis, I returned to my dream when a graduate student in English Literature, to write a novel. I had no idea what I was going to write but when I sat down at my computer, and placed my fingers on the keyboard, this is what I wrote: "Henya Chanah is a woman who longer bleeds, so she puzzles over how this could have happened." I knew then that I was going to write a novel about my family's history.
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