Society & Culture
Fellow Atlanta-area author Beth Hermes joins the podcast this week. Beth has been a professional writer for over 30 years, she teaches creative and business writing workshops to children and adults, and is the author behind the spiritual/fantasy fiction series The Lightbearers. I wanted to speak with Beth about what it’s like being a writer, teaching writing, and learning about writing as an adult. We discuss Beth's early career as an author and how she got her start as a shadow artist (2:01), how being an outsider seems to be a requirement for being a writer (8:51), why she believes it's important to keep her writing life separate from her regular life (10:25), what techniques she uses to draw stories out of some of the non-authors she works with in writing workshops (15:42), why she advises new authors to read as much as possible (21:51), what it's like teaching this new generation of kids to read and write (25:13), her advice for aspiring authors (28:15), how writing about dragons has taught her that we're not so different from one-another after all (36:22), and how losing her beloved horse taught her so much about life (38:16). Learn more about Beth on her website and don't forget to connect with her on Facebook and Instagram! Subscribe to Southern Life Indian Wife where you listen to podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and TuneIn. Keep up to date with the podcast and my upcoming book news by following me on Facebook, Instagramand Twitter! And…email me at sherylparbhoo@gmail.com to order a signed copy of my book The Unexpected Daughter. Support the show.