Writing
The Legacy of a Dream
Contrary to popular opinion Canadian history is not dull. Case in point: Champlain’s Dream, by David Hackett Fischer. This award-winning, non-fiction book is an exhaustively researched, yet highly readable account of Canada’s earliest years, as recounted through the valorous and…
The Illusion of Emotion in Writing
Humans feel things differently and read things differently “This is such a moving book” or “I cried when I read this” or “I laughed myself silly.” A good book will elicit some sort of emotion from you. Even a non-fiction…
Becoming a Writer
Most people tend to over-think a lot of things when they think about becoming a writer. I am part of a much older crowd and tend to look at life in a much more black and white way. I know…
Destined to Soar
I have had a hard time dealing with blank pages. I have wonderful ideas, but then I get a pen and paper, or sit in front of my computer and… nothing. Not one idea flows. I would argue that in…
Google Ads, and Writers
The Internet is a strange place. On the Internet, when we want to look at anything we go online to a search engine, most likely Google, and use keywords- and then go to a website that we believe fits fits…
Perils of Writers, or, Have I Got a Sale For You
How helpful are Twitter and a professional Facebook in increasing sales of your book? Unless you are Kiera Cass, Terry Brooks, John Grisham, or George Takei, what you have to offer to readers on Twitter and Facebook will not help…
Guest Blogger Judy Croome: A Rose By Any Other Name (Or Branding Yourself)
A Rose by Any Other Name by Judy Croome Walking into a grocery store to buy some butter, we go straight to the aisle marked ‘Dairy’, choose the brand we prefer and head to the till to pay for it.…
Guest Blogger Judy Croome: Writers, What Are You Really Saying?
What are you really saying? When a writer trawls through her pages, carefully removing a word here, or changing another word there, how does she know which word to delete and which new word to use? What makes one word more suited to this sentence, but…
