http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Linda+Rader+Overman Writing Linda Rader Overman Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=316645&ca=Writing “Oh come on, it’s all based on a true story isn’t it? Come on. Tell me. I know it is.” I hear this comment often. And now that my novel Letters Between Us has been published by Plain View Press and is going out into the world, some of my preliminary readers, friends, and colleagues are certain... Writing Linda Rader Overman Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=314292&ca=Writing Long ago I dreamed about it. I wanted it, but it wasn’t happening. Published! There’s that word again. I was desperate to get published, feel published, and just be published. Several of my friends were . . . so why not me? But it seemed that the publishing gods did not want to know anything about m... Writing Linda Rader Overman Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=312418&ca=Writing The other day my twenty-something son stopped by for a visit and decided to take a short swim in our pool. This was something unique, really, because he hadn’t been a steady presence in our pool since he and his sister were of elementary school age. Then with only just the two of them, or with the... Writing Linda Rader Overman Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=309300&ca=Writing “Linda, Linda, LEENDA,” Mother would scream out to small groups of strangers strolling by while we sipped tea together on the patio of a local coffee house. This was to be a happy weekly outing—a short walking distance from the assisted living facility that was now her home, yet she’d spend most of... Writing Linda Rader Overman Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=308055&ca=Writing The comments I get when I tell friends, family, or even strangers that I have published Letters Between Us, my debut novel, usually skip and hop from “Whaddya mean . . . like a real book?” to “What’s the title?”; from “That’s great, and what’s it about?” to “Hmm, I have always wanted to write a nove... Writing Linda Rader Overman Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=308056&ca=Writing I take out a sheet of paper and smooth its curled edges with my hands as I lay it on my writing desk. The paper is not white, rather more of a beige or splash-of-cream color, really. It contains no lines, just the minimal echo of the tree it once was part of. I take a whiff and it smells of ink and...