Blogs and Writing
If You Don’t have Anything on Your Blog, You Can Forget about Traffic I’ve heard this theme a lot, and this is true when it comes to blogging. Traffic, or readers, can be hard to come by, loyal, but also…
Book Review: Ascent of Women by Sally Armstrong
The book the Ascent of Women is profound. The plight that is equal rights for women has been a centuries old struggle and did not start with bra burning in 1968, which most of us were taught. Ascent of WomenA…
Tech Review: Sphero 2.0
Technology- and all the thing that entails- is a wonderful thing for writers. I spend a lot of time working with tech products, and they help me in many ways. I look for ways to improve our writing lives, and in my…
Book Review: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
As I stated in my first blog post, I have a messy desk. But the mess doesn’t stop there. I am a busy mom of three and I want to learn to clean my house more efficiently. I know where everything…
Book Review: Ru by Kim Thuy
When I heard that the winner of the 2015 Canada Reads contest was Ru: A Novel by Kim Thuy, I was a little shocked. The buzz around the literary world was that Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian was being touted…
Quality Alert? Writers and The Internet
A writer must consider quality content above all else. It’s a great statement when you first glance at it. It is one of these ‘think positive’ type of messages we all love to hear or read about. I agree with…
Tech Review: Mechanical Keyboards
Why on Earth would anyone pay $200 for a computer keyboard?! My last blog post (which was actually my first ever post on a website) talked about speech to text Apps that would save you the trouble of typing. I’m not a…
Book Review: On Immunity by Eula Biss
I want you to think about a time when you had a really bad headache. A headache so bad that you couldn’t get out of bed and you truly felt that your head was going to explode. Now take that…
