Subjoint

Posted on February 9, 2008. Filed under: Canada, daily life, remarriage, writing | Tags: , , , |

Rob and I frequently meet for lunch at a little place on 100Ave called Subjoint. A woman named Tara who is one of those impossibly thin beautiful women that I always wanted to be when I was young runs it. When I asked her today if she would mind if I took a photo of [...]

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Word Press, Cell phone novels, and Me (again)

Posted on January 27, 2008. Filed under: Bloggin, Feminism, Identity, SAHM, YWBB, grief, writing | Tags: , , , , , |

Okay, so because I haven’t joined nearly enough blog sites (MSN-Spaces, dot.mac, LiveJournal, Blogger, Blogher, NaBloMo) or have blogs enough, I went to WordPress the other day and started a whole new account and am rebuilding this site essentially at WordPress. A really neat function allowed me to transfer all the stuff at Blogger (which [...]

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Start Here

Posted on November 24, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: |

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”Stephen King from On Writing p.101
Something I needed to hear. Funny how that works.

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On Writing a Novel

Posted on November 23, 2007. Filed under: grief, widowhood | Tags: , , |

I am currently zipping through Stephen King’s book about writing called On Writing. There are two things that make this unusual. The first being that I am zipping through it. Reading anything longer than a news paper article is rare for me these days. If a story runs more than two pages in Oprah:The Magazine, [...]

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My First Public Reading as a Writer

Posted on November 19, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

The Fort Saskatchewan writing group I belong to, the Paragraffers, held a public reading for it’s members Sunday at Shell Theatre located at the Dow Centennial Center. Any member who wished to was able to participate and our leader, Kathie, even invited the nearby Strathcona group to participate if they were inclined. I decided early [...]

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