I just had my favorite school session ever. I’ve had really fun sessions with kids, but this was special. First of all, it was over two...

We’re renovating again. We’re back to chaos, distractions, dirt everywhere, and pizza in the living room because the kitchen is deep in...

I decided to set aside writing for a little while – to let my current manuscript sit, while other people read it, and to not start on a...

I’m at that odd place of having completed a story, at least in its general form; I’ve edited it as far as I can; and I’m not sure where...

I am finally; officially, on the second draft of my story. It’s a great joy to have a finished manuscript that I can read from beginning...

I’m settling back into a regular writing routine, still working on those last three chapters. They’re going to be the longest-to-write...

New Years Resolutions always seem to be about doing more, going faster, being better. I think for me they need to be about going slower...

I had hoped to finish the first draft of my current story by Christmas. I’m within spitting distance – three chapters to go – but I’m not...

Now that I’m finished with the Veil Weavers page proofs (well, almost – they’re back for one more look), I’m settling back into writing...

Inspired by Art Slade’s stories of writing while walking on a treadmill, and unable to squeeze one into my small, shared office space,...

I’m just home from Banff, and I feel marinated in story and language. That’s all we did, besides eat and crack endless jokes. And it was...

While I’ve had much less trouble with asthma this summer than in many years, the altitude at the Athabasca Glacier nailed me. I spent our...

In the continued distractions of summer and holidays and ongoing renovations (yes, the project continues to haunt us), I decided to put...

I have been writing. In spite of renovation chaos and torrential rains and summer schedules, I’ve been writing. It’s tough to settle in...

Between family and street cleaners and renovators and all the other chaos of my neighbourhood, solitude seems to be long gone. Now I...

Distractions continue: Two days of renovators trenching the front garden outside my office window, shoring up the front entry with new...

Writing rhythm sounds like it should be smooth. Mine is all limpity–gumpity. For several months I’ve been happily working on two...

Sometimes when I’m in the middle of a story I feel like a landed fish, flopping in a panic. Barbara Abercrombie, in A Year of Living...

I’ve been world building. That sounds powerful, doesn’t it? Sometimes it feels rather small, as I’m aware of all the things I don’t yet...

After a Christmas caroling party Saturday night (with some good singing once we’d warmed up), Sunday was immensely quiet. The girls were...