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I have been writing and revising furiously for a while now, and today I turned in the sequel to The Way We Fall to my editor. Woohoo! It has a working title, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet, so I … Continue reading
Category Archives: Writer At Work
I’m heading off in a couple of hours to teach a writing workshop at the local library. The class is going to span four Saturdays, and I’m hoping to take the kids all the way through the creative process, from … Continue reading
When an idea strikes you, what do you do with it? Write it down in detail or as it jumps out at you? Or do you make an outline of it? To some extent, it depends on how strongly the … Continue reading
Naturally, as I have just gotten back from Japan, I have started reworking my Japan book! (I wrote a very rough first draft a couple years ago, but I didn’t want to take it any further until I’d actually visited … Continue reading
I mentioned yesterday that I had a reason for changing the blog schedule–the reason is, my Japan trip is still on, and I’m leaving tomorrow morning! I’m very excited for a few reasons. One, because I’ve wanted to visit for … Continue reading
Are there any exercises you do to help you get better at writing or get more into it? To be honest, I’ve never been that into writing exercises. I feel like I do my best writing when it’s for a … Continue reading
I was cleaning out my old filing cabinet today, because I have a brand shiny new (and twice as big) one, and stopped to sort through my rejections folder because I’d left some short story manuscripts in there I really … Continue reading
My notebooks and index cards are essential for me to brainstorm and plan out my stories, but I couldn’t write them down without my laptop computer. The one I’ve been using for the last four years is an iBook G3: … Continue reading
Just as my notebooks are a key component to the brainstorming stage of my writing, my index cards are essential to the outlining stage. I usually use 3″x5″ cards, but sometimes 4″x6″s if I know I’ll be including a lot … Continue reading
I did a school visit today that felt a lot like stepping back in time. I went to talk with a bunch of grade twelve students at my former high school, Riverdale C.I., and it’s the first time I’ve been … Continue reading