by MontanaCoauthor | Nov 1, 2021 | News, Writing Process Tips
On October 28th, Anika Hanisch interviewed long-time novelist and memoirist Laura Kalpakian who has recently published a new instructional work: Memory into Memoir: A Writer’s Handbook. The two women shared their insights about the memoir-writing process. Both have...
by MontanaCoauthor | Oct 4, 2021 | News, Writing Process Tips
Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Montana has asked Anika Hanisch to interview long-time novelist and memoirist Laura Kalpakian about her new non-fiction instructional work: Memory into Memoir: A Writer’s Handbook. The two women have taught memoir-writing and written...
by MontanaCoauthor | Sep 6, 2021 | Sketchbook, Writing Process Tips
It’s still early September, but we’ve started to see the first flushes of fall color. In Montana, our mid- and late-summers have become incredibly hot, dry, and smoky. So it’s hard to tell if the trees are changing because it’s true-autumn, or because they are drying...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jul 20, 2021 | Writing Process Tips
How my role as a writer-for-hire helps me finish my own creative work As a natural health ghostwriter, copywriter, and coauthor for the past twenty years, I’ve met incredible people I wouldn’t have met any other way. I’ve learned about new scientific and medical...
by MontanaCoauthor | May 11, 2021 | News, Writing Process Tips
Musings on the work that begins AFTER the first readable draft is complete I recently turned in the first full readable draft of a multi-author manuscript. The team was elated. Each author had already spent months of effort working with me to revise their chapters. I...
by MontanaCoauthor | Nov 21, 2020 | Sketchbook, Writing Process Tips
It hasn’t been the prettiest Autumn. Bitter cold—well below freezing—in early October, many trees hadn’t even lost their leaves yet when everything froze solid in shades of brown and gray. After that abrupt halt to our growing season, the deciduous trees and bushes...
