I believe I’ve always been a writer at heart. Throughout my life, I have often been drawn to the craft as a path to emotional survival, to help process an overwhelming physical world. I came to write fiction after years of having buried many of my creative dreams under the tech company I’d started after […]
I’ve been a member of the Authors Guild for decades and I am proud to share my reflection for the #WhyWritersMatter campaign from The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC). Does writing matter? It does. Especially to the writer who draws stories from the raw material of their observations and transforms them into reflections fueled by […]
Why do I write? Well see, I come from a family full of southern women with big hair and even bigger mouths. And man, do we love to tell stories. One day a few years ago, I had a shower epiphany. ‘What if I tried to write down some of these stories rolling around in […]
For as long as we have recorded history, one of humanity’s great projects has been to seek some form of immortality. Religions are oriented toward life eternal and resurrection. Conquerors haven taken to the field in search of a name that would outlive their bodies. Legends speak of wellsprings of everlasting life. This pull toward […]
I’ve always written. True stories. Stories that come from travel. I can’t write about what I don’t know so everything I have ever written has been a recount of something ridiculous that has happened to me from falling down a squat toilet in Nepal to commandeering a horse from local Mexicans for a tequila mission. […]
I began writing in early 2013 after discovering a love for reading in the new adult genre. As the mother of a severely autistic child, both reading and writing became a means of escape from the stresses of daily life. It was also a way to manifest the fantasies that had always run through my […]
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