Yesterday I attended the Ontario Writers’ Conference in Ajax Ontario. It was a heart-breakingly beautiful sunny day, and I wondered aloud if I really needed another writers’ conference. I’d already pitched to two of the agents at another conference,...
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 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...
One of the fun parts of creating a fictional character is considering what he’ll look like and who could play them in the movie version. I have always thought that John Cusack looks like Simon, the protagonist of Weather Vane. He’s handsome, but not...
I’m freshly back from a four-day writers’ conference in Niagara Falls and everything looks different. It’s almost like the way I would feel coming back to the west after six months in India. I’ve changed and therefore so has the world in which...
I’m on my way to the Algonkian Writers’ Conference to learn some things, perhaps, and have the opportunity to present myself before those who would judge. As I scan our workbook I am aware of the traditional approach to novel writing that the organizers...
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