Wrapping Up Writing
Year-end is a good time for wrapping up writing and more. With holiday celebrations in full swing, there’s too much going on to concentrate on finishing a work-in-progress, or starting…
Read moreYear-end is a good time for wrapping up writing and more. With holiday celebrations in full swing, there’s too much going on to concentrate on finishing a work-in-progress, or starting…
Read moreYes, indeed, who are we without the language of our ancestors? A Lesson on Identity I was reminded of the importance of language on a recent cruise to Alaska. The…
Read moreMy book reading at the Local Book Fair in the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library went well, but now I find myself in writer’s limbo. In other words, I’m between projects. In…
Read moreWith year-end musings occupying my daily thoughts, I decided to write a blog post. And I’m writing it, while so much of Canada and the USA are dealing with fierce…
Read moreOctober 15 is the day of my book launch of Paper Roses on Stony Mountain, a historical and biographical fiction, set on a Manitoba farm, the federal penetentiary village of…
Read moreVisitng Poland, Ukraine’s friend, was uppermost in my mind, when we booked a fourteen-day bus tour through Central Europe. After three long years of being super vigilant, due to Covid…
Read moreLast night, I learned that Putin’s war in Ukraine had started. I began to cry and couldn’t stop, and I woke up and cried again. I didn’t cry just for…
Read moreI never planned a soft launch for my latest novel, Sunflowers Under Fire, a historical fiction. But my newest baby, which I’ve nurtured for so long, is now out in…
Read moreWriters write from life. Fiction needs to be believable or else readers won’t be pulled into the story. Right now, there is more truth in fiction than can be found…
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