Writers love to read about writing. It makes us feel not quite so alone. The thing is, reading about writing doesn’t get the book written. Writing the book gets the book written. And writing the book is damn hard, because the more one writes, the more exacting...
On Monday, October 29th, I was interviewed on Sunshine 89.1 by Jim Birchard in regards to the Writers’ Community of Simcoe County. He was gracious and calm, set me instantly at ease and asked a wide range of questions – from the current status of poetry to...
Last October I attended the Niagara event sponsored by the Algonkian Writer Conferences with my novel , Weather Vane, in my hot little hand, ready to knock the agents and editors dead. It was ready. It was au courant. It was unique… no one had written from this...
I hazard to imagine (if one can hazard such a thing) that I am in the final sweep of editing my novel before submitting it to the kind editors and agents who requested it. One question that I have asked myself over the past years is, if I had known what it took to...
Today I’m excited. Yesterday I was stressed out, upset, anxious, scared, and sad. I find that so fascinating – that one moment the entire world seems to be falling apart and the next it all seems so rosy and friendly. So possible. For me, it doesn’t...
