Since completing the first draft of my current novel in Banff this spring my focus has been on editing and revising, I haven’t done a lot of wild fresh writing. This weekend when I visited my friend Sue Reynolds we sat down to write together. She shared her...
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...
In 2012, I took a year-long course, A Novel Approach to Memoir, with Sue Reynolds. My ambition was to write about the winters I spent in India taking trainings in various healing modalities. The original title was “Four Winters in India,” but when the year...
When I was twenty-one I set out to become a dancer. For six months I’d been drinking in Europe – its museums, galleries, cafes and its men – but I was still thirsty. I’d been stretching my legs on the balustrade of my Persian lover’s balcony while...
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...
Every two to four weeks I sit with Sue Reynolds in her home with a group of other writers to write for an entire day . These days are aptly called “Sanctuary”. I’m reasonable well-disciplined at home, but in this setting I catch fire, so I am...
