Lately my writing has been primarily focussed on transcribing into my laptop handwritten scenes for my new novel. There have been a few sweet exceptions where my ’emotional co-conspirator’ (a term we coined after discarding boyfriend/girlfriend, paramour...
Reprinted from Humber College’s News website: http://creativearts.humber.ca/programs/school-writers/news I spent the summer I turned seventeen handwriting my first novel, Revival of a Dead Widowed, in a stuffy pension attic in old Quebec. Luckily, that book...
Canada Writes is currently hosting a competition called Bloodlines, judged by Lawrence Hill, where writers are invited to share stories/lore/anecdotes from their family archives. I thought immediately about the Wild West stories my grandmother told, but could only...
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....
Dale Long, my fellow Write Brain critique group colleague and Novel Approach alumni writes an engaging blog on writing, family and issues that bug the hell out of him. He has a feature there called, The Author’s Voice, wherein he interviews writers at the...
When I began writing this blog, I made the promise that coming along for this literary ride would be fun. This past Saturday, it was that and so much more. WCDR’s Whispered Words short prose competition announced the winners at this month’s breakfast...