THE BEGINNING AND THE END – when will it be done?

by | Jun 17, 2013 | creative writing, editing, fiction, final draft, literary writing, novel writing, rewriting, Rewriting the novel, Writers' Community of Simcoe County, writing mentors, writing process

I’ve listened to agents, editors, teachers and friends advise, guide, support and suggest ways to approach and improve my novel. I’ve been down dirt paths, super highways, and regular old two-lane roads according to their direction. Although I have always written, the...

He Said. Now She Says.

by | Jun 10, 2012 | novel writing, revision, rewriting

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...

‘When you will make an end of it?’ – Pope Julius II in The Agony and the Ecstacy

by | Jul 7, 2011 | Canadian novel writing, creative writing, final draft, novel in progress, novel writing, revision, rewriting, Rewriting the novel, second draft, Uncategorized, writing, writing fiction, writing process, Writing retreats

It is day four at Maryholme Retreat Centre on Lake Simcoe and I have just completed another full edit of my novel, Weather Vane. I have been hearing the voices that say bad words in my head again. I heard them and I kept walking over the lawns with my clipboard and my...