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Bestseller Banter Panel
First, a wee note: I have embarked on my first NaNoWriMo, and because I had to finish a couple of writing tasks before the end of October, I haven’t been able to blog daily and complete my report of...
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Saturday night keynote: Jim C. Hines
I’d encountered Jim C. Hines before, on the pages of John Scalzi’s and Chuck Wendig’s blogs. I was curious about his penchant for cross dressing and why he would write a book about a libromancer. So,...
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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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Blue pencil and pitch
After breakfast and the keynote on Sunday morning, I had signed up for a blue pencil session with Jim C. Hines and a pitch session with Nephele Tempest, back to back. Needless to say, I was a bundle of...
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Bits and pieces: Diana Gabaldon and Jack Whyte
The thing about conferences like SiWC is that you always have a lot of choice. I’ve been blogging the sessions I attended, but at every time slot on every day, there were about ten different sessions I...
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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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It’s a wrap!
There is so much more to the Surrey International Writers’ Conference (SiWC) than I wrote about. Yes, there were a tonne (that’s metric, eh?) of sessions that I couldn’t get to, everything from...
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The next chapter: 2013 in review
I think it’s important to recognize all the good things one accomplishes. With regard to my writing, 2013 has been a banner year. I haven’t seen its like in … well a very long time. You may remember...
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The next chapter: February 2014 update
Greetings writerly peeps! As I mentioned yesterday, this winter has gotten me a bit down, and as a result I have not written as much as I would have liked to this month. There were some nights that I...
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Brian Henry workshop, Sudbury, March 22, 2014
This afternoon, I attended my fifth Brian Henry workshop. This one, the third held in Sudbury and hosted by the Sudbury Writers’ Guild, was on “How to make your stories dramatic.” These workshops are...
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The Next Chapter: August 2014 update
This has been a weird month, writing-wise. I started out well enough, continued working on Gerod and the Lions, and started revising one of my longer short stories for submission. Then I went to When...
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WWC 2014, Day 1: Evening keynotes
Here we are at the end of day 1 (for me–I know others partied into the wee hours). At other conferences and conventions, guest of honour keynotes are generally spread throughout the event, often at or...
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My literary mothers and what they taught me
This post was inspired by a challenge that another friend participated in. That challenge was to write, in a short post, the influence of a single literary mother. While I found the concept compelling,...
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