Today, I am sharing some mentoring tips, as I am fortunate to be mentoring a couple of University of Alberta students soon in relation to the running of a non-profit organization. As Secretary of my local writing group, the Writers Foundation of Strathcona County, my...
As writers and authors we want and need to find ‘our people’. This enables us to be connected even while solitary in our work. There are myriad of ways of doing this, so let’s get started. We can begin with finding comparable authors in our genre(s) on social media,...
As many of my regular visitors know I rarely write poetry, however during Poetry Month in April of this year, I did write a few! The Writers Foundation of Strathcona County set out prompts every day under the main title for the contest - World on Fire. You could pick...
As writers we are always honing our skill and learning new styles and types of writing aid our creativity. I attended two workshops on 29th February, both gave me the opportunity to improve my writing. As an author, we welcome constructive critique of our work, it is...
I spent our 'extra' day, 29th February indulging in two writing workshops. One was a novel workshop, which will span four months. A group of writers email a number of chapters of their current work in progress for edits and suggestions to each other and then email...
I certainly had fun with this #interview with ThreeSixtyAlberta talking about my writing life, books, publisher and writing group. Did I answer a question for you or was there something else you wanted to know? I'm more than happy to answer questions - so go ahead -...
Writing Exercise At the last writing group's sharing meeting, we were given these words to create a poem or short story in 10 minutes. bird, scrape, clock, envy, whistle, sunset I am sharing my story with you. Gerald scraped the ice from the car windshield, his...
This year I celebrate a decade of writing. It was not something my creative brain discovered until I came to Canada. Throughout my younger life art was my main creative outlet, whether it was painting, collage, pottery, sculpture, textiles, knitting, sewing, and many...