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It takes a lot of courage to admit there is something wrong—even more to share that pain with others. Amanda did. Faced with increasing cyber assaults, insults and bullying Amanda Todd created a video about her experience which garnered over 20 million hits and has since spurred an entire movement raising awareness about teen […]
Read MoreAn agent once told me that most authors don’t get published till their third manuscript. On a blog I was reading the other day, it was four. Now, considering my first manuscript took me about five years to write that would mean, according to this rule of thumb, I can expect to see my name […]
Read MoreThe grass has turned a mushy brown, the winds are kicking up, and the sky looks like one big doggy bowl. There is nothing like ugly weather to make sitting at the computer for hours on end that much more inviting— especially so when you are in your mother in law’s fifth wheel trailer and […]
Read MoreThis is Renee. When I first met her she was answering phones and making photo copies as an office temp one floor below me. Then she gave it all up and began a career in something different altogether: shoe making. As much as I love to wear them, I’ve never really considered making them. Cobbling is […]
Read MoreThere are cakes, and then there are double chocolate tuxedo cakes. There is coffee and then there are hazelnuts Americanos. There are shoes, and then there are Fluevogs. Curving lines, flared heels, and funky-licious black trim—whenever I put on my maroon Mini Darlings I can’t decide if I feel like going out for lobster […]
Read MoreAdolescence—it is a brutal stage of life filled with anxiety and doubt but wonderful highs I could probably only achieve these days with illegal drugs. And it’s for that reason that I am always drawn to that period of life as the setting for my manuscripts. And what better way to truly connect to that […]
Read MoreFrustration. It can be painful and annoying and when it comes to the craft of writing, exceedingly persistent But it can also create wonders. Reading The Velveteen Rabbit to my son this afternoon, I discovered that this wonderful, magical classic in children’s literature was born out of the author’s, Margery Williams, frustration with her previous publications. According to the […]
Read MoreWhat does Margaret Atwood’s office look like? Does she have a parking lot view or forest panorama? I have always been interested in artist’s spaces and how they set them up to support and stimulate their work. However as Mrs Atwood does not appear to be on the verge of inviting snoopy strangers into […]
Read MoreNormally I write about things that give me creative inspiration, hope, or otherwise motivate me to get writing. However, today being Remembrance Day (in Canada and the other Commanwealth countries anyway) I thought I should so something I rarely do, and that’s remember–remember all the men and women and children who lost their lives […]
Read MoreAt a writer’s event I attended last summer, a celebration of Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature of Art, I had the good fortune of meeting Carrie Mac–author of numerous award winning YA novels including The Gryphon Project. While we exchanged only a few words what really stuck with my afterwards was the fact that Carrie arrived at the […]
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