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Sunday morning keynote: Jane Porter
NaNoWriMo progress Sorry I haven’t been blogging as promised, but NaNoWriMo has taken over my life (!) In a totally good way though ;) I’m happy to say that while I had an outline to follow,...
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Bruce Hale’s keynote Oct 27, 2013
This is my last summary of the sessions and keynotes I attended at SiWC this year. I’ll have one more post summing up odds and ends because there was so much going on … But that’s for next week. Bruce...
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The next chapter: March 2014 update
Today was, indeed, a glorious new day. This morning, the sun was shining, the high for the day was predicted to be above zero degrees Celsius (it turned out to be plus six), and Phil made me...
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The next chapter: April 2014 update
If March was a little weird, April was a whole lot weird. Lemme ‘splain. I abandoned the thought of keeping to any kind of “schedule” with regard to my writing. At the end of last month, I had drafts...
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The next chapter: May 2014 update
This is going to be a short update. All of the new words I produced this month were from blogging (7503), even though I didn’t blog for a whole week because of chaos. It was good chaos, but...
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The next chapter: June 2014 update
Hey all! I must say that June was a blockbuster month for me. It started with the publication of my science fiction short story “The Broken Places” being published in Bastion Science Fiction Magazine....
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The next chapter: July 2014 update
July was much the same as June for me. I worked primarily on Gerod and the Lions, am still slowly mapping out Figments, and though I did some work on a short story (it’s almost 10K, so not really...
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The next chapter: January 2015 update
Technically, I could have written this post last Saturday, but I was still writing into the evening and I count everything up until go to sleep on the last day of the month. As is often the case,...
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The Next Chapter: February 2015 update
As you may have been able to surmise from recent weekend posts, February was a rough month for me. March is gearing up to be another such, but, the good news? Apparently, work misery doesn’t affect my...
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The next chapter: March 2015 update
Last month, I wrote about how I was reprioritizing my life because I’d made the realization that pouring all my creative energy into the day-job was not making me happy. It wasn’t getting me any closer...
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The next chapter: May 2015 update
Holy shemoley! It’s June already and I’m three weeks into my five week leave. Time she’s a-flying :( May was all about catching up on my revisions. I’d fallen behind and had really wanted to get them...
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The next chapter: June 2015 update
As expected, with the revisions of Initiate of Stone complete(ish—I’m still getting the final sections from outstanding beta readers), query letter and synopsis written, and the query process started,...
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The next chapter: July 2015 update
July was a weird month. I got off to a decent start, determined to finish off Marushka. I revised and submitted a short story to an anthology call. I received a rejection for another story a few days...
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The next chapter: September 2015 update
What can I say about September? First, I’m back on track. Second, I finished drafting Marushka and am well on my way to having a finished draft of Gerod and the Lions. Marushka ended up at a tidy...
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Thoughty Thursday: Things that made me go hmmmm on the interwebz, Nov 1-7, 2015
My brain is all NaNoWriMo these days. So I’m going to give you a wee NaNo word count update on Thursdays. As of today: 36,466 words. The unremembered. The Globe and Mail. Our new government has created...
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The next chapter: December 2015 update and a year in the writerly life
Another year has come and gone. This one flew, but was filled with both Writerly Goodness, and sadness. First up: December 2015 I kept drafting Reality Bomb until it was complete. By December 20, it...
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Tipsday: Writerly Goodness found on the interwebz, Oct 4-10, 2020
Now that we’ve entered month seven of the pandemic, we have to balance self-care with medical compliance. Be kind to yourself and nurture your creativity with some informal writerly learnings. Black...
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