ARE WE RE-WIRING OUR BRAINS? Were you online today? Did you check your email , read a favourite blog, watch a video or look at some pretty pictures on Pinterest? Did you Google a question – perhaps the price of a pup tent at Canadian Tire, how to repair the damned hot water system on […]
Internet, Social Media,Youtube, Computer Games: Opiate of the Masses? Read More »
BLOGGING IS HARD I’ve been trying to transition from an occasional and erratic blogger into a regular blogger for some time now, and toward that end have read books and taken classes, such as Kristen Lamb‘s Are You There Blog It’s Me Writer, an her WANA Tribe blogging class, and most recently, moved to a
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I was tagged in the ‘Elevens Tag’ by Emily Dring at Ficklebrain. So, it looks like I’ve got eleven questions to answer. If I have tagged you, you’re next! Look to the end of this post for my new eleven questions and get typing away… How to play Elevens Tag: Post these rules. Post a photo
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I just had to repost this from The Fickle Brain because I agree with it so much. I’ve always been addicted to learning, and can vouch for the fact that the more I learn, the less I feel I know. This has posed a problem when it comes to blogging, by the way, because in
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Writing is a solitary affair, as many have noted before. And, ironically, filmmaking is a highly collaborative effort, although often screenwriters are excluded from the process once the screenplay has received its final edits. This past weekend I participated in an innovative, collaborative INTENSE workshop for screenwriters that involved a talented group of actors as
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Well the study junkie’s been at it again. As usual I ‘ve had my head up my (*cough*) in my books, immersed in one topic or another for the past several months, undoubtedly at the expense of my writing. Well, in the short term anyway. In the long term, I hope it all adds up
Emotion in Fiction Read More »
Recently I realized there’s a definite pattern to the books that I’ve been writing. In some ways I suppose it’s obvious, but since it’s quite unintentional, it kind of caught me by surprise. The female protagonists, and often the males as well, in at least two of my novels, and probably another three that I’ve
Professional Women, Love and Carl Jung Read More »
See how good I’m being? I said I was going to write, and that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I’m up to about 88,000 words on my WIP Coming About. I’m smack in the middle of writing my climactic scene, in which… no wait. I can’t tell you that. That would ruin the surprise. At
Women’s Fiction vs. Books Read More »
Well I see it’s quite a while since I added anything new to my site. I have a good excuse, honest. I mentioned in What’s New back in April that I’d been taking a few courses. Well, I sure did. I don’t know what came over me. I seem to have discovered a multitude of
Exploding Brain Syndrome Read More »
Last Friday I was invited to guest post on Blame it on The Muse. Below is a copy of that post. God Shuffled His Feet (with a bow to the Crash Test Dummies) Story ideas come from many places, but often they are stillborn, or lie stagnant, waiting to be infused with inspiration by you,
