Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Oct
31
Oct
28
"... it seemed to me that writing was something other people did, wonderful people who lived in an atmosphere of intellectual fervour where brilliant conversation was the norm, people like Virginia Woolf and her circle of erudite Bloomsbury sophisticates, not people in our humble walk of life." [caption id="attachment_12642"... read more
Oct
21
Read the series intro to Will Come the Words: Writers & their creative spaces here. MICHELLE BERRY lives and writes in Peterborough, Canada. (more…)
Oct
15
This series, Will Come the Words: Writers & Their Creative Spaces, sprang out of my recent visit to the home of freelance lifestyles and food writer Stephanie Dickison and a discussion about how our creative spaces reflect our personalities and influence our writing. I've received numerous enthusiastic responses to her introduction (read it... read more
Oct
07
But the essential question is, Have you found a space, that empty space, which should surround you when you write? Into that space, which is like a form of listening, of attention, will come the words, the words your characters will speak, ideas -- inspiration. If a writer cannot find... read more
Oct
01
Guest post by Frances Shepherd By the time I was in a taxi making the drive from the Maurice Bishop International Airport to Petite Anse Hotel on the island of Grenada, thanks to Allyson Latta’s organizational skills I had met... read more