Read the intro to Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces. SUSAN SIDDELEY lives and writes...
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“I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
— James A. Michener
On Writing: Find the right “space to create” — guest post by Coral Jewell
November 18, 2013
Note from Allyson: Coral's post is dedicated to author Doris Lessing (1919 - 2013), who passed away yesterday at age...
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Will Come the Words: author Robert Rotenberg’s creative space
November 12, 2013
Read the series intro to Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces. ROBERT ROTENBERG lives and...
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Telling Secrets: The Power of What’s Hidden in a Story — Nov 17 (plus: “The Inviting Door” 1st-pages workshop)
November 11, 2013
Join me on Sunday, November 17, in Orillia, for a one-hour morning workshop, "The Inviting Door," during which I'll critique...
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“Never give up trying to write perfect sentences”: Interview with award-winning author Peter Behrens (Part 2)
November 5, 2013
I hope you enjoyed Part 1. Below is the second part of this interview my students conducted with guest author Peter Behrens during...
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“Ideas seem always to have been there, lurking, latent”: Interview with award-winning author Peter Behrens (Part 1)
November 4, 2013
PETER BEHRENS' first novel, The Law of Dreams (2006), won the Governor General’s Literary Award, one of Canada’s most prestigious book prizes,...
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Will Come the Words: Gail Gallant’s creative space (she’s not saying it’s haunted but …)
October 31, 2013
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Granting Ourselves Permission to Write, an essay by Blanche Howard
October 28, 2013
"... it seemed to me that writing was something other people did, wonderful people who lived in an atmosphere of...
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Will Come the Words: Michelle Berry’s creative space
October 21, 2013
Read the series intro to Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces here. MICHELLE BERRY lives and...
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Will Come the Words: Christy Ann Conlin’s creative space
October 15, 2013
This series, Will Come the Words: Writers & Their Creative Spaces, sprang out of my recent visit to the home of freelance...
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Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces (series introduction)
October 7, 2013
But the essential question is, Have you found a space, that empty space, which should surround you when you write?...
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“Our week had a rhythm …”: Memories of a Grenada writers’ retreat
October 1, 2013
Guest post by Frances Shepherd By the time I was in a taxi making the drive from the Maurice Bishop...
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