This week I have two events. Firstly, tonight I will attend a meeting of the Diversity Committee, who are co-hosting an event with one of my other organizations I volunteer with, the Arts & Culture Council. The event is a celebration of Canada's 150 but also to...
Your blog, Mandy Eve-Barnett's Official Blog, appears to be getting more traffic than usual! 90 hourly views - 1 hourly views on average A spike in your stats A huge thank you to my 3206 followers for making my blog the writing community I so wanted to create. I will...
Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com You registered with WordPress.com 6 years ago. Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging Wow I didn't realize I had been blogging that long! Thank you to all my lovely followers for sharing this writing journey with me....
Why not share your books and/or blog. Our community has grown and we can celebrate our achievements and our passion for the written word. Please remember I still have spots left for writer or author interviews until 31st December 2015. Message me if you are...
To have inspiration for our writing we must observe life, to avoid our family and friends abandoning us we need to engage with them, to pay the bills we must usually work a day job, to maintain our word count or deadline we must organize writing time. So the question...
As I mentioned on Friday, tomorrow is my writing group's Christmas party - it is an opportunity to share our current projects, reflect on the past year and reconnect with members who have been away. Part of the celebration is for everyone to read a seasonally themed...
In a perfect world we would be able to write whenever and where ever we chose. However, life gets in the way all too often. Many of us have to juggle family commitments and a 'day' job while writing. Finding the ‘perfect’ balance between these is always a challenge....
Plausible - definition: 1. having an appearance of truth or reason; 2, seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; 3. credible; believable I am happy to accept this blog award from Glynis at http://glynissmyauthor.com/ My year long 'a post a day' has certainly made me...
Puny - definition: slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak As writers we all have our literary heroes. These people inspire but also intimidate us. Why? Because we feel puny compared to their expertise, their skill at the craft of writing and in the...