Reading and Writing with a Reviewer’s Eye
I am thrilled to welcome award winning author Jodé Millman to the Miss Demeanors. Jodé reviews books for Booktrib.com and she[…]
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Author: Emilya Naymark
Emilya Naymark is the author of the novels Hide in Place Behind the Lie.
Her short stories appear in A Stranger Comes to Town, edited by Michael Koryta, Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017, and 1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY.
She lives and writes in the Hudson Valley
Solving Writer’s Block with Embodied Writing
Embodied writing connects the mind and body, allowing writers to access deeper layers of creativity and insight. It involves tuning into physical sensations, emotions, and instincts as a way to inform the writing process. Instead of just relying on intellect, writers engage their bodies to explore their characters and stories more fully.
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Sensational Writing
Sensational can mean many things. It can mean fabulous, trashy, astounding. But that’s not what I’m writing about today. Today,[…]
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Newsletters & Substacks About Publishing
Yes, yes, we are inundated all the time with newsletters and substacks flying at us like confetti on New Year’s.[…]
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One Sentence
I was having a discussion with my critique partners the other day, and one of them, Matt Witten, mentioned how[…]
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AI Detection, Publishing Contracts, and You
Or, What Happens When Your Publisher Thinks AI Wrote Your Book First, I’m not a lawyer. Nor am I an[…]
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Red Herrings
And how to pickle them I’ve always had a rather foggy idea of what a red herring was, but I[…]
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Autofiction
One could argue that all fiction is autofiction, to a degree. After all, we can only experience the world through[…]
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Some Great News, Some Sad News, and a Gift
I’ll start with the gift: I’ll read and critique the first 5 query letters any writer who is looking to[…]
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Character Arcs
Signs and portents, my dear readers, signs and portents. Last week, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt all along the[…]
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