My mother is a born storyteller. When I was young, I paid little attention; but when I became a mother myself, I began to jot down her anecdotes. I am…
Truth and Fiction in the Writing of Memoirs
Passion: The Driving Force
I sometimes wonder what keeps me day after day, hour after hour, year after year sitting in front of a computer, working on stories. I struggle to find the right…
Taking A Break To De-clutter The Mind
Since I’ve been up to my eyeballs trying to figure out the next steps in my writing life —and getting confused as to which direction to take—I took a break…
A Whole Empire Walking
Since I was old enough to comprehend, my mother has bent my ear with stories of how awful it was in the old country, before she immigrated to Canada when…
Cipher at Tulsa International Film Festival
CIPHER, a short film my grandson, Michael Stevantoni, directed, shot and edited has just been selected for the Tulsa International Film Festival Sept. 22-25, 2011. As a writer with aspirations…
Scrapping The Prologue
While travelling down to L.A., I fussed about my novel, A CALL FROM THE DEEP, which I’m hoping to get published in the near future. It’s completed but it has this…
Blogging and Social Media
Stumbling upon, Kristen Lamb\’s blog , I feel as if I’ve been given a wake-up call. Kristen Lamb has written several books on the subject of using social media to raise…
Reading, Writing and Webinars
Much as I loved reading Stieg Larsson’s trilogy, which I posted about previously, I’ve been delighted to dig into something completely different – No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod ,…
Writing As Therapy
Although I’ve written many poems, I’ve only published one poem on my site. For me, poetry has been largely a way to deal with powerful feelings that arise, often unexpected…
The Battle Over Words
Awhile ago, I wrote about Stieg Larsson’s books, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and his sequels and how impressed I was with his ability to write a page turning…