Your Creative Midlife
Your Creative Midlife. With host Betsy Bush.
I’m talking to people who are exploring the creative life post-career or as empty nesters: painting, writing, making music, theater, and film making. What about you? Is this the time to write that book? Return to arts you enjoyed as a kid or teen? Curious to try something new?
Here’s the thing: It’s never too late to bring a creative practice into your life. My guests talk about the satisfaction they find as they develop their new skills. They also share the uncertainty and fear they felt when they started and the confidence they gained as they kept at it and their skills developed. Even better: their definition of success is their own. Where do you want to go? Dare to follow your muse.
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Your Creative Midlife
Your Midlife Is Vibrant – Write About It! with Stella Fosse
Stella Fosse retired from her biotech career ten years ago and started writing. Her work encompasses a surprising range, from blogs to novels to non-fiction guides for midlife women who want to write their own stories filled with love and romance. Her new book is “Rock On: Power, Sex & Money After 60”. As she says, “Nobody told me how great life after 60 could be.”
This episode covers:
- How Stella began her writing journey by joining a writing group that challenged her to write sexy stories for a live audience.
- How she was motivated to write stories featuring older women to show others what is possible in later life.
- Stella’s background in biotech inspired her romance novel "Vampires of a Certain Age," featuring a 500-year old woman.
- When Stella identified a gap in the market for romance novels with older women, she wrote a guide to encourage more writers to fill this niche.
- She advocates for the use of community resources like the North Carolina Writers Network, the Willamette Writers, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) as great starting points for aspiring writers.
About Stella Fosse
In her sixties, Stella Fosse graduated from a biotech career to write sexy stories as a creative antidote to gendered ageism. Stella’s story collection, The Erotic Pandemic Ball, explores romance in quarantine. Her novel Brilliant Charming Bastard is a romantic escapade through the San Francisco tech scene. Her second novel, Vampires of a Certain Age, celebrates the love life of a 500-year-old woman. She launched two books on writing to inspire the creativity of older women. Aphrodite's Pen: The Power of Writing Erotica after Midlife was followed by Write & Sell a Well-Seasoned Romance. For the last ten years, Stella has published essays on creativity, romance, and older women's health. Her upcoming book, Rock On: Power, Sex & Money after Sixty, distills the wisdom of that decade. Website: www.stellafosse.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StellaFosseAuthor/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stellafosse
Instagram: @stella.fosse
Substack: stellafosse.substack.com
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