Tag Archives: writing life

Writer Wednesday: Why I do it

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

I get asked sometimes why I write. Or how I choose what stories to tell. The answer is a simple one but it doesn’t seem to be easily graspable by most. I do it because I can’t not do it. … Continue reading →

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2012 Writing Goals

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

I completed some of my 2011 Writing Goals, but not all of them. That’s okay. I’m not going to beat myself up about it. I’m just going to do better this year. Finish Dead Transgressions. Finish The Jade Star of … Continue reading →

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Writer Wednesday: Bellica!

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

So, there was a bit of a mishap with Bellica — somehow my editor worked on the wrong (read: older, un-revised version) copy of Part 2 for about 8 hours. This has set us back a bit and Bellica should … Continue reading →

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Writer’s Bucket List, Revisited

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

A while ago I posted a writer’s bucket list for myself. I decided that for today’s post, I would revisit it and see how much progress I’m making. Publish 4 novels. I’ve got at least that many as WIPs currently, … Continue reading →

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Writer Wednesday: Can’t stop now! This is Nano country!

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

As many of you may know, November is National Novel Writing Month: Thirty Days and Nights of Literary Abandon. Some may say that phrase is quite literal, that we abandon literature. I’m sure there are NaNo novels for which that … Continue reading →

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Writer Wednesday: VIWF is here and it’s as awesome as I thought it would be

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

I have spent the past 2 days volunteering in the food service part of the Vancouver International Writer’s Festival (which I’ve blogged about previously). It has been awesome. Food service for events — doing prep work in the kitchen and … Continue reading →

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Writer Wednesday: The Writer’s Diet

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

First, please note that when I say “diet” I do not mean “calorie counting fascism designed to make you feel terrible about yourself and trigger all your eating disorders”. I mean, quite specifically, all the food that one ingests — … Continue reading →

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30 in 30: Day 25 (you seriously don’t want to know how big my “to read” list is)

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

Any five books from your “to be read” stack Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination, by Dr. Christopher Hart The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations, and Rituals, by Patricia Monaghan Bodhisattva of Compassion, by John Blofeld A … Continue reading →

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Voting closed: results are…..(drumroll please)…….

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

I’m apparently doing a podcast! Of course, I’d pretty much already made up my mind, but I did want to see how many of my readers would actually listen to a podcast or if it’d just be me circle-jerking to … Continue reading →

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I spend a lot of my time wishing I was more creative. Or. Well.  Wishing I could express my latent creativity with more ease. I see pictures in my mind and I can’t get them to form on paper. I … Continue reading →

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