I have nothing to blog about. I’ve been watching meditation teachings on-line, vicariously participating in a meditation retreat in...

I want stories that pull me in and hold me until the very end when I cry, “Oh, I don’t want it to be over.” So how do I write that way?...

1. Paper breeds. There is no other explanation for the neverending piles on my desk. 2. I’m obsessive about pens. 3. And I’m obsessive...

Some days, writing doesn’t come. I can’t just sit down and work on a story, even though I have words pressing into my fingers, wanting to...

My organizational frenzy has faded away, as quickly as it arrived. But it has pushed me to continue to organize (reluctantly, I must...

I adore my computers, both the desktop and my laptop. I am addicted to the internet, love the ease I can find things with Google, use...

Last week filled with family needs, a school visit, and three days in bed with a bug. When I emerged, I was cranky from too much time...

After months of problems with my laptop, and far too many visits to the Apple Store, I finally have a new computer. (The details: MacBook...

Writing has come in fit and starts, mostly in the morning before sessions begin, with a pause for a sick day. It hasn’t felt brilliant...

I’ve been thinking about NaNoWrMo, November Novel Writing Month, in which participants strive to write a 50,000 novel in the month of...

Somehow I keep getting pulled away from writing. Wordfest is next week, so I’m preparing for that: 9 days between Calgary and Banff, with...

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...

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...

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...

I’m on holiday, and not writing much. I have moments of inspiration, taking notes during an organ concert, sneaking photos of a woman for...

We’ve had far more rain than usual for June, which is normally the rainiest month in Calgary. We’ve more than made up for a dry winter,...

I’ve had a very successful week making writing the focus of my days, in spite of renovations and a twice-dead furnace. But I’ve been...

In a great commencement address Neil Gaiman gave (at The University of The Arts), he said, “There was a day when I looked up and realized...

I’ve been away from writing for too long. Oh, I’ve been writing and thinking and reading. But not writing for hours at a time. A daughter...

At one of my school events, a teacher said he’d noticed I animate inanimate objects in all my books, and he wanted to know if I’d done...