This post is one of my favourites. It is a re-cycle, with edits, from a post I wrote ten years ago; In her 2011 autobiography,…
“Draw what you like and hope others like it too”. Charles Schulz Substitute “create” for “draw” and that advice is suitable for any medium. As…
Every week I spend some time stressing over my choice of topics for this blog. I scratch through my running list of possible ideas, pick…
My writing style has an affliction I refer to as comma-itis. Around and through my sentences and paragraphs are an abundance of commas. I tend…
Previously I believed I could not write fiction. It’s not important why I thought so, just note that I went from “I can’t,” to “here’s…
Here’s a variation on the proverbial desert island question: What if you were to be stranded on an island and could take as many books,…
My father was still working full time at age 68. When I asked him if he was thinking at all about retirement, he answered that…
Nobody storms the Bastille with their mouth full. If Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had had the insight to change the tax system to give…
On impulse one evening I googled ‘short story contests Canada’. And guess what? The CBC short story contest is under way! The deadline for submissions…