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I read somewhere once that going somewhere new is a good for the writer’s mind, the unfamiliar surroundings stimulating creativity and fresh ways of seeing. I just got back from an island retreat with my girlfriends and our collective kidlets yesterday, and was happy to discover a pile of plot tweaks nestled among my sand filled socks. Maybe […]
Read MoreDoes this shirt make me look like a sack of onions? Should I really have spent that much on a cup of coffee? Did I actually just say that? My life is full of self doubt, and the time I spend writing is no exception. And though I don’t know if there is any real […]
Read MoreI love Pixar. Pretty much any time I see a lamp hopping across the screen at the start of a show I know I can expect the next two hours to be a good time, full of all kinds of fun and silly unexpected twists. SQUIRREL! Which is why when Emma Coates says jump, I say, when, […]
Read More“When you stop [writing] you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love.” – Ernest Hemingway (sourced from Brain Pickings) Someone once complimented me on my writing discipline. They were wrong. Thing is I don’t write because I am ultra strict when […]
Read MoreI got some pretty critical feedback regarding a manuscript last week, and I won’t deny it, the comments left me feeling pretty DEVASTATED at first. What do you mean that character wasn’t developed? What do you meant there are lots of loose ends. What do you mean it’s not totally perfect!! However, like a torrential […]
Read More“Why do you write?” My mom asked me this question yesterday afternoon, and after my automatic eye rolling response had passed (there are some parts of adolescence that just won’t die) I thought of a quote from Gloria Steinem: “I do not like to write – I like to have written.” (sourced from goodreads) Do […]
Read MoreThree months and 99 posts later and I have finally made it to number one—a very special space that could only be filled by none than of course, this very blog. I have gained a lot through my challenge to find 100 things that inspire me to write, but two pieces stick out the […]
Read More“The brick walls are there for a reason. .. [they] are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture. Rejection, never ending edits, and oh yeah, the fact that there are so many people out there that are clearly better […]
Read MoreLike setting and conflict, time is one of those Important Novel Elements discussed in every writing class I have ever taken. When does one scene take place in relation to another? How is that conveyed? And whatever you do, don’t go overboard on the flashbacks. All good advice, of course, however, nothing makes me more […]
Read MoreLike a tea kettle in a Disney movie, there are some paintings which almost seem to breath with life. Ted Harrison’s renditions of Northern Canadian landscapes are like that for me—the colors so brilliant, the lines so fluid, the scale so grand, that I feel like I’m sitting on a stretch of Yukon tundra every […]
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