I barely thought about the Olympics leading up to today. My ears registered the news announcing the countdown; my mind let the info slip in and out. Since I wanted to continue trying out my new ASUS laptop, I decided to stream the Opening Ceremony in the background. Yesterday, I’d connected my monitor to my…
Category: Personal
Updating My Writing Steps
Updating my writing steps: Getting back into fiction writing means reminding myself how I got from idea to finish manuscript.
Leaving Twitter and Facebook
I’ve been putting off this moment — leaving Twitter and Facebook — but it’s time to say bye to Twitter and Facebook. I’m not deactivating my accounts, but I’ve become so uncomfortable posting even article links that I can’t anymore, tho I’m missing my peeps very much. I’ve been on Tw since 2008, FB 2007.
The UK Vote and Dual Citizenship: Do I Vote?
This year, for the first time, overseas British citizens can vote in the UK election, which means I, a dual Canadian-British citizen can vote in a UK general election, which I’d never considered possible before and has sent me into a bit of a tizzy. I have a decision to make. Is it OK for…
The Writing Workshop Life
Not sure why but this year, I’ve impulsed my way into writing workshops, events, and this week a series of conversations on the artisan author. I think my subconscious decided I needed a kick to get back into novelling. And it worked. The retrofitting ended…almost…but it took a year longer than planned, and technical and…
Low Back on Twitchy Strike
What does the low back do? You quickly find out when it goes on strike aka locks up, tightens on every movement, or contracts back and abdominal muscles suddenly.
Solar Eclipse 2024, Toronto Cloudy Version
Solar eclipse 2024 makes four. Yup, I’ve now witnessed four solar eclipses! My first one remains my most memorable. The 2024 one the most disappointing. But I still got pix!
Storygarden Summit
I signed up for the Storygarden Summit on a whim. I’d enjoyed Plottr’s writing craft book club on Story Genius so much I wanted to keep inside the writing sphere. I’m so glad I signed up! I haven’t worked on my novels or books for over a year. Too many other things going on, and…
Decision-Making
Decisions require emotions, so writes Lisa Cron in Story Genius. Maybe that’s why for years my decision-making skill vanished. It returned bit by bit. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, I asked fewer and fewer people for advice. Yeah, I had fewer to ask, but I also told myself not to ask every single person I knew but…