This is THE episode for writers who love reading various genres but aren’t sure they can make that leap into writing  a new one. Guest Joan Donaldson shares her method with host Sheridan Sharp for jumping from genre to genre on this episode of AM I WRITE? And it all has to do with exercising those fingers daily, identifying conflict, and having a little belief in yourself.

About Joan Donaldson

Joan's novel On Viney's Mountain won the 2010 Friends of American Writers Award for Outstanding YA novel and represented the State of TN at the 2010 National Book Festival. Her novel Hearts of Mercy won first place in the 2018 Pencraft Awards for romantic suspense. Over the years, The Christian Science Monitor has published many of her personal essays. In 2008, she earned a MFA in creative writing from Spalding University. Along with her husband, John, she writes from her organic blueberry farm.

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The Way of the Writer by Charles Johnson

Books by Jerry Spinelli

Joan’s Farm