I love the Comic Strip by Bill Watterson. The above image of Calvin perfectly represents how I feel at my desk more often then I care to admit. Since making the decision to get serious about writing as a career I would say the biggest thing I have learned so far is to succeed you […]
Weapons in my Armoury – You Gotta Want it!!! Read More
We’ve all heard it said it takes a village to raise a child. I would like to adopt that adage here and say it takes a village to produce a writer. The writer practices their craft in isolation. But to enable a writer to practice their craft to the best of their ability, and to
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This first Saturday of 2018, I am returning to my series: Weapons in my Armoury. If you are new to this series, an explanation can be found in the last paragraph here. My weapon this week is that of believing in yourself. Throughout our lives, there will be nay-sayers. Those people who, for whatever reason,
Weapons in my Armoury – You Gotta Believe!!! Can I get an Amen? Read More
Another year is upon us. A year full of possibility, hope and adventure. No matter how difficult 2017 may have been for you, I pray that you look at 2018 with those three things in mind. Every day is a possibility: to move forward in our dreams or to mend something broken, whatever they may
Happy New Year to One and All!!! Read More
I have decided to pause my Saturday series until the New Year. I will still post so stay tuned for more Seasonal offerings in the coming weeks. The Christmas decorations will be going up, time will be spent with family and friends, and I will be walking around enjoying all the wonderful light displays that
Weapons in my Armoury – on pause for the Holidays Read More
This is going to be a short post as I am in the final days of NANOWRIMO. In fact, I have been making such amazing headway in a small town series I am developing, that I forgot that I still had a post to write for this Saturday series. I know, I said Saturday, and this
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This is the third week of the National Write a Novel in a Month (NANOWRIMO) contest. The goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. That is an average of 1667 words per day. And…..I’m behind. At one point, this past weekend I was 10,000 words behind. But as of the start of
NANOWRIMO 2017 – Progress Report Read More
Today I am continuing my Saturday theme on the writing life. This is the third in a series of posts about the writing tools in my work shed. I call the series Weapons in my Armoury. The first of the series was about the value of writing prompts, the second was about platform and branding,
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While attempting to come up with a title for my earlier post on Notetaking, I discovered a little-known fact. Our modern-day practice of notetaking and collecting those notes in books has historical origins. According to the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: “In the most general sense, a commonplace book contains a collection of
I read a very interesting article recently, Why Digital Note-taking will Never Replace the Physical Journal. It caused me to reexamine my own note-taking practice. Until I was a student at The University of Victoria, I was always a long-hand note taker. While at university, some instructors were giving so much information very quickly that
Collecting Notes – Write or Type? Read More