We have a new season in Calgary: summer-fall-winter. Yesterday was a beautiful summer day, today a raw and wet fall, and there’s snow...

I’m not sure why my monarda (bee balm) decided to bloom in late September, but it’s gorgeous, so I’m not complaining. Maureen

I just spent three very long days sitting in a large theatre, listening, absorbing, struggling to understand, typing frantically on a...

Friday to Sunday I’ll be at the John Truby’s Anatomy of Story Master Class. Here’s how it’s advertised: “John Truby is Hollywood’s...

My website has been adorned by a couple of buffalo (characters in The Veil Weavers) http://www.maureenbush.com/. If you run the cursor...

I’m a co-star in a cartoon! This summer, children’s illustrator Carolyn Fisher wrote a blog about a Young Alberta Book Society meeting,...

Fall always feels like the new year for me, starting back to school as a child and a university student, and then with my own kids...

Well, I didn’t do anything as disciplined as writing 1000 new words a day, (Writing on the Road, Aug 27) but I did write every day (well,...

Hiking up Johnston’s Canyon, I came across a literary quite, from The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner: “I gave my heart to the...

We’ve been away a lot this summer, and I keep slipping away from writing, and then needing to return to it. I thought I could write 1000...

After losing all my echinacea last winter, I’m delighted my new plants are blooming well this year. There’s something absurd about the...

I’ve lost a favorite book, and have no idea how, or where, or when… It’s Momo, by the German writer Michael Ende, who also wrote The...

I’ve been trying Scrivener, a program for writers, and I love it. It’s software for writers, particularly for novelists working on long...

I’m in the mushy middle of my story, floundering in plotlessness. Well, it feels that way. I considered using my new software gem...

There’s something about wild places that inspire me. I’m not sure why, not being a wild person. But when I’m in really wild, remote...

Years ago, I decided to try hollyhocks in my garden. I bought a plant, waited eagerly for it to bloom, and was horrified to discover I’d...

I’m struggling to write 1000 new words a day. I fail, almost entirely, on weekends and holidays. And I think I’ll let that be okay – a...

There’s something simple about writing, a clarity that comes to me – a peacefulness and comfortableness with myself – that comes in the...

We spent three days in Banff National Park, hiking and exploring and getting bled by mosquitoes. They were voracious, having bred in the...