Carol HoenigA To-Do List While Waiting for that Long-Anticipated Publication DateHow excited am I? Why, you ask? Well, on September 10th of this year my novel, Before She Was a Finley, is being published by All Night…3 min read·Apr 26, 2024--1--1
Carol HoenigGetting That NudgeIt’s been a while since I posted anything here and I suppose I could blame it on the holidays for the interruption. It’s the excuse I used…13 min read·Feb 2, 2023----
Carol HoenigSharing My Writer’s Journey in 2022: 20th InstallmentEarlier this year I decided to share my journey as a writer here on Medium. Frustration fueled my need to evaluate what I did and didn’t…2 min read·Dec 8, 2022--1--1
Carol HoenigAn Early Morning Epiphany (A Writer’s Journey, 19th Installment)Usually when I’m feeling down, it’s because I cannot get back to working on whatever I’m in the middle of writing, but lately things have…3 min read·Nov 18, 2022----
Carol HoenigAm I Being Mocked? (A Writer’s Journey, 18th Installment)It’s been a few weeks since I last posted here, but during that time I managed to start my sixth novel while putting some distance from the…3 min read·Nov 14, 2022--2--2
Carol HoenigCormac McCarthy and Me (A Writer’s Journey, 17th Installment)I never would have thought that I would be on the same page, so to speak and not literally, as a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award…2 min read·Oct 4, 2022----
Carol HoenigWhat’s Next? (A Writer’s Journey, 16th Installment)Now that I have finished the first draft of my fifth novel, I will not — I repeat — I will not look at it for several days. Instead, I…2 min read·Sep 27, 2022----
Carol HoenigAn Alone Community (A Writer’s Journey, 15th Installment)You may think the title of this piece is contradictory, but let me explain. As writers, we must do the work on our own. We sit at our desk…3 min read·Sep 17, 2022--3--3
Carol HoenigGetting Taken Seriously (A Writer’s Journey, 14th Installment)I recently pulled out all my diaries from the 1980s and 1990s, skimming through them to find just where I was in my writing life during…2 min read·Sep 5, 2022----
Carol HoenigWhen Your Publisher Folds (A Writer’s Journey, 13th Installment)So far I’ve written mostly about my first published novel, Without Grace, but actually the first novel I wrote was Of Little Faith, which…6 min read·Sep 1, 2022----