How to Write a Book from A-Z
If you have The Story rattling around in your brain but have yet to have found THE way to put it on paper, join me, a writer newbie who talks with the experts. We will hear from published writers of the San Gabriel Writers' League as they share their passion for words on a page. These members have hundreds of years of combined experience in the writing industry, and they are thrilled to share their journey.
Grab the Big Chief, electronic device or voice recorder and take notes because once you hear what they have to share, you will be compelled to start your very own writing journey. You'll find no pattern or hard and fast rule of how to do it. The most enlightening stories are how our guests found their own path to write and continue to work at perfecting their craft.
Episodes
25 episodes
Brian Schiff: Breathless-How a Novel Started with just Two Lines on Paper
I like it when someone utilizes their gifts in ways unexpected. Like when a left brain engineer decides to write a novel (not a technical manual). "I just started with two lines on a piece of paper..." and off he went into new and unchartered t...
Shekethia Cash: Bible Quizzes 101:602 Pages of Her Hands Doing God's Work
How many times have you wondered if that "thing" inside of you is telling you something? Well, if you believe that "thing" is the Holy Spirit and you listen, sometimes 602 pages burst forth and a book is created. Meet Shekethia Cash who decided...
Hank Haliasz: A Career in Our Space Program: Listening to the Heartbeat of the first Cosmonaut, Mars, and other Non-earthly Things
The first mission to the moon had a great effect on many people. Hard to believe it has taken so long to build Artemis and watch as the miracle of engineering and technology blast more humans off into space.Born with the mind of an engin...
Ken Stubert: Our Writers' Contest-Win $500-Along with Hearing his Journey
Join me as we talk to the San Gabriel Writers' League President. Ken Stubert will share his writing journey and belief in the power of voice. We also want to invite you to enter our writing contest starting this month. Check us out below:...
Lisa Greinert: My Wild and Mysterious Journey after Vomiting
This is a continuation of the previous episode. In this episode my goal is two-fold, share ways to get rid of the leftovers from secrets or unresolved trauma still inside you and ensure you know, Who the Hell You Are.
Lisa Greinert: Who the Hell am I? How vomiting changed my life.
It is time to tell listeners where I am on my writing journey since that is why I started the podcast. If you've never attempted to write your story, you might be interested in hearing how mine has been going since starting my writing in 2022. ...
The Power of Women: Surviving Genocide, a Convent, and Mean Girls
It's hearing stories from women. Their stories of overcoming that inspire me and teach me. You've had the pleasure of hearing from Kerry and Caryn, you'll be hearing from Clementine Msengi for the first time. As I listened and read what s...
Bryant Family: The Family that Writes Books Together...
It's tough raising kids. Especially as they get older and more independent. The Bryant family decided to use their time and talents to work together to create a book. What a wonderful way to come together, especially with older kids who sometim...
Kerry Dashnaw: Yearning To Be Free- Life as a Nun
Our choices after high school usually lean towards college or gaining experience in some way that will lead us towards our purpose. Meet Kerry Dashnaw whose teen curiosity and naivety led her to choose the life of a Nun. Little did she know tha...
The Year: 2470. Technology Hasn't Progressed Since the 1900's-A SciFi Novel by Austin Vasquez
Here is an example of what J.K. Rowling did. One woman gave millions of people, young and old, the power of the written word. It's mind blowing when you think of her impact. One woman. She gave people of all backgrounds a sense that anyone is c...
C.C. Hawk: Slices of Life essays-fiction-memoir
Who said a book is only essays or only fiction or only a memoir?! Meet Caryn Cross Hawk who decided to include each as she shares her own writing journey. From a desire to write at a young age to years of a career slowly learning important aspe...
A 96-year-old Cantankerous Writer and Ex-Navy Captain S. Martin Shelton
Grit. Or as he calls himself, just plain old cantankerous. Either way, what he has accomplished in 96 years far exceeds what most of us will experience in our own lives. This one is longer than usual. Out of respect for this man's service to ou...
Linda Thornton: The Skywriter meets a Mermaid
Who decides when a group of letters become words? I mean the words that make it in the dictionary. Linda Thornton loves words and enjoys creating her own, because, why not?! Join us as we discuss where her love of writing has taken her, e...
"You Don't Know What You Don't Know" with publisher Donnella Looger
Donnella Looger is one of those people living out her gift and passion. Listen as she shares how a young girl who read cereal boxes to find mistakes turned a passion for the written language into owning her own publishing company.
What Happens when an NFL Player Listens to His Grandmother
My guests are New England Patriots Offensive Tackle, Calvin Anderson and his grandmother, Marjorie Anderson. If you haven't had a chance, please listen to a previous episode about Marjorie and her book, The Key: Wise Money Choices for Teens. Th...
Men and Emotions... It's a Thing by Laura Jones Swann
"The first time I was incarcerated I was 14 years old; the real man rules were magnified. I had to up my game if I wanted to be a real man, my life depended on it. I was sucked deeper into the world of better cars, more money,...
Harish Rijhwani-From Fact to Fiction: A Writer's Journey
Harish is a multifacted individual with 21 years of experience in IT and 11 years in Teaching. He has created an ability to take difficult Healthcare IT concepts and turn them into fiction. By doing so, it allows the audience to understand diff...
Janice Airhart: A Motherless Daughter
When Janice Airhart was an infant, her mother was committed to a Louisiana mental hospital where she spent most of the next 13 years institutionalized until her death. As a shy child, she used writing as a reprieve from the world. Join us...
Marjorie Anderson: The KEY 13:22
You will love finding out the one sentence that started Marjorie's writing journey. We all want to leave something for our kids and grandkids, unfortunately, they're not interested in the china that we kept from our parents. So, what better gif...
Parii Jha: Being a 14 year old Novelist
Meet Parii Jha, a fourteen-year-old published author. Her talent for creating her own world and characters should be the catapult to start you on your own writing journey. She spent her time wisely during COVID, unlike some of us. W...
The Fantastic Kent Cummins
Kent Cummins has been very busy the last eighty years. The word boredom does not exist in his world. His writing provides an expansive array of works focused on performing and sharing the joy of magic. The Fantastic Kent Cummins will shar...
Laurie Woodford: From Drill Sergeant to Rom-Coms
What do you do with a major life change? If you are Laurie Woodford, you leave your safety net and travel the world. Oh, and teach English in several countries, too. As you listen to Laurie, it is hard to imagine she spent time in the res...
David Dupree: From Dyslexia to Author at the Highest Levels
Do you ever wish someone would just, "get to the gist"? Have you ever met a "gister"? Well, you are about to hear from one. David shares his early struggle with Dyslexia and a career path that focused on the value of specificity and simpl...