I attended an online discussion yesterday in regards to the question: Why Buy Canadian. The panel put forth several interesting points about how people outside of Canada view the country as a whole. One statement that intrigued me, was how we are perceived as a...
Did your occupation as an educator lead to you writing? I grew up in Michigan and came to Canada in the 1960s to attend the University of British Columbia, where I more or less flunked out of my PhD program in Modern Chinese History. This turned out to be a blessing...
As writers we are used to juggling many writing projects at the same time or the complete opposite - nothing! (Although, I have to say my mind is crowded with ideas most of the time in MUSE central!) These opposing states come with their own problems, each unique and...
1) Where do you find inspiration? Does place or observation, or both influence your writing? Ideas come to me from everywhere, both from external and internal sources. It's a ceaseless flood of ideas really that I experience, evoked by a wide range of random stimuli...
I hosted a virtual workshop last Saturday for the Words in the Park event. It was fun to utilize Zoom so that participants from far and wide could join me. As the workshop was free, I thought I would share the bare bones of the workshop. Hopefully, it will give you...
It took some time to decide whether I would participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I have participated ten times in all and each time have created novel or novella length manuscripts. Most have been revised and edited over the following year or so to become published...
So it seems it's been a week of delays! Here is the question of the week. Have you ever turned a dream or a nightmare into a written piece? My answer: My current WIP is a steampunk novel and the initial scene in it is of a dream I had. It was so dramatic I knew I...
Today describe a place you love or a trip you have taken as a short story or a poem. Mine is a reflection of a road trip in the Rocky Mountains. The air smells fresh and crisp Cloud shadows undulate across rock Bird song surrounds me Water trickles between iced edges...
Writing: I managed to hide away in my local library last night prior to my writers meeting and work on revisions for my reincarnation romance, The Twesome Loop. With twenty-two pages revised, 510 words added (I don't count deleted ones!) I felt satisfied at it's...