While making the myriad preparations for an upcoming trip, I realized I had not yet published my post on the last conference I attended. So here it is. Central Coast Writer’s Conference I attended the Central Coast Writer’s Conference held annually in San Luis Obispo, California in September. It was a new conference for me […]
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We were blessed to have a Sisters in Crime conference here in Victoria, BC on 19 August 2018. I’m a bit late sharing my experience but still wanted to tell you about it in hopes you might be encouraged to attend a conference in the future, either with them or another organization. I love when it
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This is the first of my newly themed Friday posts, Loving and Giving, where I will highlight an individual or organization that seeks to better the lives of their fellow human beings. They do so by hands-on acts of kindness and rescue or by choosing to bring to light a dark aspect of the human
Today Canada celebrates books with the world by aligning the Canada and B.C. Book Days with the UN World Book Day. Why April 23rd some may ask? On this day in 1616, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Crevantes, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. In keeping with this theme here are a few
I love watching the Olympics. And when I’ve placed a self-imposed deadline to have a revision of my manuscript to an editor by the 18th of March, it doesn’t make it easy. So for the duration of the games, I’ll be either looking like this… or this… GO CANADA!!!
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There is not a bit of creation that is not named. Can you imagine the task God gave Adam, the naming of every single creature? Not having had children, I can only imagine the process parents go through when naming their offspring. Biological children I do not have, but I do have children of another sort.
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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,
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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
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