Posts tagged writing
Flash Non-fiction … new workshop this winter!
You’ve likely heard of Flash Fiction. Well, there’s also a genre called Flash Non-fiction. True stories, but super short. Think: 100 words-1000 words. I’m actually giving the same workshop twice. The only difference is the day/time, length of the course; and host: Writers Federation of New Brunswick’s will be four weeks, Saturday mornings from 9-11 […]
Catching up …
Oh my. So much has happened in the last nine months, it would take me nine months to condense it all. Suffice to say, all good! On the news front, happy to share that my manuscript, Coming Home (a collection of essays), is finally in the hands of the publisher at Pottersfield Press. The opening […]
Winter Writing Workshops
Pleased (and excited) to be giving three non-fiction writing workshops this winter via Zoom. Here are the blurbs and links. Please check them out … and help spread the word! Putting the Creative in Creative Non Fiction with Alexandra Writing Centre Society, eight weeks. Wednesdays, 1-3 p.m. MT (4-6 p.m. AST) starting Feb. 5th https://www.alexandrawriters.org/store/p638/putting-the-creative-in-creative-nonfiction.html […]
And then …
A year and a bit has drifted by. Well, “drifted” is not the exact word I’m looking for. Zoomed? Hmm. Yes, but still not quite right. Barrelled? Flown? Trundled? Let’s just say it’s been a year and a bit since I said adios. I’m back. Two weeks from today, I fly to Toronto and get […]
C is for CHEER
I’ve not thought about the word “cheer” as an actual feeling until today. But I have been feeling cheery of late—thanks to a little bird. This feeling started about a week ago when a bird showed up on our front deck under a birdhouse where we put suet for the woodpeckers. I thought at first […]
Winter! How did this happen?
In less than forty-eight hours it will officially be winter–with Christmas on its heels. Seems that fall came and went in the flash of an eye. SWISH! Just like that. Although I slowed down–way way down–time, it seems, did not. This past November I turned seventy-seven and celebrated my personal “new year” by spending a […]
Giddy-up-go; Halt!
It’s been ninety-one days since I last posted here. Something I swore I’d never let happen again–let a huge hunk of time lapse before “checking in.” It’s not for lack of content, or what I think would be fun to share; there’s buckets of stuff idling in the wings. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been buckets of […]
Writing Life #4
When I give workshops, I usually end with two things: the importance of setting goals as a writer, and the importance of creating a road plan (to-do lists) to reach those goals. Then I babble on a bit wanting to be a travel writer back in 1999 when I started my freelance business. That goal […]
Writing Life #2
In my last post I said I would be going through seven binders of writing “stuff” accumulated over the past 20 years. Today was the day. There were actually nine binders dating back 25 years. It all started when I took my first poetry workshop with Mark David Gerson here in Yarmouth. At the time, […]
