I’ve just come back from a celebratory brunch at the lovely Sunnyside Cafe in my new neighbourhood of Esquimalt, British Columbia. They have the best egg dishes. Their hollandaise is gloriously decadent. I usually go for something with smoked salmon, but today I...
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...
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...
At Sanctuary on Saturday, we began, as usual, with proprioceptive writing… a free flow of thoughts, ideas and images, with the anchor of asking, when a word shimmers with energy, “what do I mean by — ?” and then answering that question. I have...
