About Bonnie Waltch
Bonnie Waltch is the award-winning senior producer and writer of the one-hour PBS and international broadcast documentary, "Earth Emergency," and series of five short films, "Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops," narrated by Richard Gere. She has worked for a variety of television science series such as NOVA, Scientific American Frontiers, and Discover Magazine. She has produced, directed, and written films for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Pikes Peak Visitor Center, the Tennessee State Museum, the Mob Museum, and the National World War II Museum, among others. She is currently in production for a broadcast documentary film about the bipolar spectrum called BrainStorm. She is also working on a novel that takes place in Newton, Mass. in 1962.
Many of us know her from her newsletter, Your Weekly Writing Exercise, chock-full of craft tips, writing exercises, and inspiration; or have used her book, Your Book Starts Here, to plot our stories. We’ve benefitted from her W-structure workshop and…
In her charming new novel, After Happily Ever After, Leslie Rasmussen’s main character deals with issues familiar to many middle-aged women and probably some men, too: children leaving the nest, ailing parents, a long-term marriage in need of rebooting, career…
If you’ve ever found yourself craving life in a small New England town, or craving an unhealthy-but-delicious salami sandwich, then put Minus Me by Mameve Medwed high on your TBR list. Medwed captures the feel of small-town life in the…
I was fishing around for websites to inspire me to get into a writing routine again, but along the way I found so much more. In the spirit of gearing up for diving in, I’ve compiled some online resources for writers that I found to be helpful.
As an American who’s written a novel about an American girl caught up in political turmoil in Honduras that includes Honduran characters, I’m particularly concerned about controversies like the one blowing up on the Twittersphere over the YA book, A…
I had worked it all out: I was going on a five-day solo writing retreat at a friend’s house in Vermont. Just the time and space I needed to do a deep dive into a final revision of my novel….