[NOT the final] When Words Collide 2023
After 3 years of virtual programming with When Words Collide, I was absolutely delighted to be back in Calgary in person for what was at …
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Writing Retreat is good (not enough coffee yet)
Welcome to Sunday morning on a writing retreat. A groggy Sunday after being awake at 5:30 for a chunk of time and then falling asleep …
Dude… He’s right there!
***This post contains spoilers (kind of…but not really…and that’s exactly what this post is about), which you may or may not care about, regarding …
NaNoWriMo progress — five options
On the NaNoWriMo stats page it gives you five options for how you feel while you’re writing, from really happy face to really sad face. …
…it’s about integrity as an artist. Being true to yourself.
Hey, as I wind down the podcast–I’m going to take a break after Griffin is done, so I can focus on finishing writing the Gatekeeper …
The Creative Cycle
Creativity is a cycle. An artist, be it a painter, a sculptor, an actor, a musician, a writer… creates a piece that originated in their …
Griffin and the Creative Process
So Griffin and the Spurious Correlations is now going out to beta readers. This is my contemporary humour fantasy romance, which I will be podcasting …
I reject this rejection
Last week I talked about Stephen King’s experience with a teacher who made him feel ashamed of the stories he wrote, and how we need …
Who’s gotta backbone?
A listener got in touch with me last week. They said, “I loved your editorial comments about Phennil getting a backbone. You sounded so proud …
A trilogy in four parts!
What’s interesting about the chapter I just posted in the podcast (Gatekeeper’s Deception, chapter 6) is that when I first started writing Kyer’s story, the …