I have been writing my novel, The Cost of Weather, for four years, which is apparently not so stunning in the novel writing world. I’ve come to think of this work as my thesis. Writing the novel has taught me how to write a novel. I hope. Recently, at the CCWWP...
I have just attended the third writing conference in as many weeks. (The other two were the Ontario Writers’ Conference and The CCWWP.) I didn’t want to go; I wanted to write, and work in my garden. It was hot and sunny under a perfect sky. I had peer critiques...
Every good story has a secret. Personally, I loathe secrets. The turning point of story is when the secret is revealed. The world spins on an axis of lies, and from infancy we suckle on those lies as if they would nourish us. We are set free when truth is revealed....
I’ve said before that Author Salon is not easy or particularly fun. It still isn’t. But I’m committed. The concept of this site is brilliant: authors work together to pull together the most enticing polished profiles and synopses of their novels, so that editors and...
The Word Weaver is a newsletter for writers and editors produced by the WCDR After What’s Left won the Whispered Words prose contest, Suzanne Caskie contacted me for an interview in the Who’s Who section of the Word Weaver. Wow. Three interviews in a row....
