This list of blog posts is sorted chronologically, starting from the most recent. To read any post just click on the appropriate title in the list below.
- Re-emerging
- You said…how many?
- Alterations Happening
- Seasonal Changes
- Remembering…
- Musing about ‘worth’…
- The Real World
- Is it still Christmas?
- Autumn Joy
- Confessions of an isolated writer…
- Summer Musings 2021
- Then again…
- Procrastination and Self-preservation
- Christmas 2020
- Remembering in 2020
- Birds of a Feather…
- An autumn like no other
- Troubleshooting or Shooting Trouble
- A Font Fixation
- A Month into Isolation
- That Time of the Year
- Springtime thoughts overshadowed by COVID-19
- A Writer’s Vulnerability and Discouragement
- Not a Resolution
- Ornaments or Decorations or Neither?
- Speaking, Writing and Freedom of Speech
- Compartmentalizing the Process of Aging
- Killing our dogs with misdirected good intentions
- Inspiration in Unlikely Places – II
- Home is Where?
- Some Things are Beyond My Control
- May Pole, May, May Not…
- I am reminded of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne…
- Mindless Deliberations
- To Declutter or Not to Declutter
- Preparing to Write
- Happy New Year: 2019
- ‘Tis Christmas Again
- Out with the old, in with the new (not years)
- Conference Reflections
- Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving!
- Time and Time Again
- Time Out for Renewal
- Renovation Celebration!
- A Musician Wannabe (and Denise Jaden’s cover reveal)
- Tenth Anniversary Post
- Summertime & Keeping it Real
- June Jottings
- No, You’re (Still) Not Ready to Publish
- Writing Despite Distractions
- Sometimes you just have to slog on through…
- He is Risen Indeed!
- A New Page
- Repeating An Irish Recipe and Blessing
- Winter’s Worn Out Its Welcome
- Author Spotlight: Ruth Logan Herne
- Thoughts on not much of anything…
- After the decorations come down…
- Christmas Blessings!
- Advent II – Live in Peace
- And so it begins…
- Hoarding on the Bottom Shelf (Rerun)
- Yes, it’s November
- #WritersPersevere
- Re-entering the Writer’s World (i.e., Post Conference Determination)
- Private Spaces
- “…congenial autumn”
- A Strange Start to September
- Is there too much emphasis on ‘diversity’?
- Fire!!!
- Happy Canada Day!
- Gardening and Writing au naturel
- Tuesday’s This and That: Birds, Writing and a Conference
- Procrastination by any other name…
- Research? What kind of research?
- MASKI: BROKEN BUT NOT DEAD – Joylene Nowell Butler
- Making Vimy Ridge Personal
- Another Generation
- Maybe I’m Writing; Maybe I’m Not
- I’m Irish! (but what’s in a name?
- Giraffe Cam Addiction
- My Memory (or Lack Thereof)
- “Snowmaggedon” 2017
- Musing
- Enduring Winter’s Blahs
- Winter’s Moon
- Happy New Year 2017!
- The Stillness of a Snowy Christmas
- Winter Solstice 2016
- Is it December? (Er, I mean “It’s December!”)
- When music makes me feel old…
- Advent I – Waiting in Hope
- Giveaway WINNER!
- A Non-review and Giveaway: ROOT BEER CANDY AND OTHER MIRACLES
- Remembrance Day 2016
- Oh, wow! What a conference!
- Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries – Excerpt and Giveaway
- Review of Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries
- Thanksgiving 2016
- Seasonal reality versus perception
- Yes, it’s happened again!
- Dealing With Change
- Written and Photographic Snapshots
- Writing in Summer Solitude
- Making Excuses
- Uncomfortable Visibility (or, An Introvert’s Woes)
- Wild Things
- Honestly…I DO like birds
- More Praise From the Garden
- Praise from the garden…
- The Before and After…
- Awaiting a Transformation: Butterflies, Bathrooms and Books
- Happy Birthday, Wild Child!
- Hanging on to the Inconsequential
- It’s FRIDAY!!!!
- Spring Things – 3
- Does God do it on purpose?
- Putting My Imagination to Work
- Keeping track of what I read…not as easy as it sounds!
- A Good Friday Moment
- Spring Things – 2
- Céad Mile Fáilte — Yes, welcome!
- Spring Things – 1
- Spring Things and Other Excuses
- Writing Time vs Online Time (It’s all about balance)
- The Writer and An Addiction to Social Media
- Sleepers Begone!
- Birds of a feather…
- The Intrusion of Real Life
- Reading for writers
- Runaway!
- The Ordinary and Extraordinary
- 2016 and My ‘One Word’
- ‘Tis Christmastime
- A taste of flash fiction
- How many candles does it take?
- Was it “just” another Sunday School pageant?
- Difficult Deadlines
- The Squint Test and Tolerating the Imperfect
- HOPE in a changing world
- It’s Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Birthday!
- Looking back in history (mine)
- It’s NOT Christmastime yet!
- Saying goodbye to favourite seasons and characters
- Prayers for Paris
- Taking control of the I.E. (again)
- Another Mañana Morning
- A rainy Friday
- Starting another new month, and NaNoWriMo
- A Season of Changes
- Conference Reflections, Past and Present
- Everything Writing
- Yes, it’s our Federal Election Day. So what?
- Stop, Look and Be Awestruck
- Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving!
- On the Cusp of Conference Time!
- Talking About Aging
- Evening Reflection
- Weeds and plants in writing
- Rainbows
- The not-so-Common Loon
- I have miles to go…
- Is it Discipline or Discouragement?
- Labouring on Labour Day
- A Smoky Start to September
- Time to tend the daisies
- Resilience – in gardening and writing
- A Humbling Encounter (reprise)
- Ah, yes…
- Another new start…
- Information Overload
- Wildfires and Writing
- Simple Things
- Happy Canada Day!
- Sunshine and Shadows
- It’s way too hot! (What’s the symbol for Heat?)
- Discoveries and Ideas
- Simmering Down and Summertime Planning
- A weekend like none other
- I’m late…
- Missing in action?
- So much promise…
- Eventide at Wildwood
- Active and Passive Waiting (again)
- Limitless Imagination
- A Monday Moment…
- Uncluttered
- The Common and Ordinary
- Creepy Crawlies (again)
- Inukshuk: You’re On the Right Path (Reprise)
- Late Night Thoughts: Sights and Sounds
- It isn’t a Lily and this isn’t a Valley, but…
- Just another spring morning…
- An Abundance of Hats
- A new take on Alice and her Wonderland
- Living the stories (and a winner!)
- 1,000 and still counting!
- Who Am I?
- Renos and Revisions: Decently and In Order
- The Harmony of Words
- From the Archives: The Rhythm of Words
- From the Archives: The Music of Words
- #wipMadness Day 26: Making Your Mark
- Tackling the Impossible
- #wipMadness Day 19: Memories That Matter
- Monday Distractions
- #wipMadness Day 12: Revising and Renovating
- Is there a genre for fictional tulips and daffodils?
- #wipMadness Day 5: On the Shady Side
- Come away…
- Oh, no! It’s almost March Madness time again!
- White… or not
- Super, Black and Blue, Full and New
- Working on Websites (Oh, my!)
- From the Archives: Partying in the Bedroom
- Finding inspiration
- Putting the ‘friend’ into cyber friendships
- How do you feel about construction?
- Hemmed In
- Day Is Done
- From the Archives: New Perspectives
- A Project Completed (proclaimed with great jubilation!)
- From the Archives: Beta Readers
- Hers Was a Life Well Lived
- Archives: There’s No Sin in Being Good to Yourself
- Living and Writing via ‘One Word’
- Flying like a writer
- A Writer’s New Year
- Christmas Day
- The Solstice and Seasonal Turnaround
- What Kind of a Welcome?
- When the power goes out…
- Advent II – Peace
- Some days are more conducive to writing than others. (Or are they?)
- It’s called a theme
- It Begins Again
- Fall Snapshots: Hunger
- There are collections, and then there are Collections
- Fall Snapshots: Wind Whispers
- Fall Snapshots: Looking for the good stuff
- Fall Snapshots: Remembering
- Fall Snapshots: Decline or Dormancy?
- Fall Snapshots: Changes
- The countdown has started
- It’s all about communication
- It’s (almost) that time of year again: NaNoWriMo
- Choices, choices — so much good reading ahead!
- Sometimes it’s hard
- In all things give thanks
- The clutter in my life, garden and writing… better known as reality
- Spider Season
- Facts or Fiction in Writing a Novel
- A wedding weekend overflowing with family, friends and faith
- Writing a Memoir: or, down the line, who will care how I live my life?
- Are you too busy?
- Summer’s Winding Down
- Dealing With Our Limitations
- Staying Focused
- Writing in a fog?
- September Clouds and Shadows
- It’s September!
- Summer Snapshot: Butterflies
- Summer Snapshot: 4×4 Adventure
- Summer Snapshot: Fireweed
- Summer Snapshot: Simplicity
- Summer Snapshot: Lichen
- Summer Snapshot: Serenity at Dawn
- Summer Snapshot: A Virtuous Clematis
- Summer Snapshot: Pebble Beach
- Summer Snapshot: Sunshine
- Blogging hiatus and a little R & R
- Is there envy or jealousy within the writing community?
- Book Review — Jane Eyre: Writer’s Digest Annotated Classic, by K.M. Weiland
- Confidence-building TLC for Writers
- In Pursuit of Coolness
- Comparing gardens with messy first drafts
- Writing Frustrations and Bird Poop
- Piano whispers from an unknown history
- Cover Reveal for FOREIGN EXCHANGE by Denise Jaden (plus a Special Giveaway)
- Weekend Scenes
- So Many Books, So Little Time!
- The Appeal of a Writer’s Garden
- Seeking summertime serenity?
- Cruising takes on a different meaning…
- Talk about cold feet!
- Story lessons from an iceberg
- Prose and poetry that delve deeper
- The Rhythm of Words
- Watching and Waiting: a poem
- Hiding from… what?
- Disappointment… or not!
- Thoughts on Seeing and Believing
- Silent Prayerful Solidarity
- Thoughts, Words and Written Chaos
- Will it be survival of the fittest or of the most diligent seeker?
- A not-terribly-useful photo journal of a morning in my life…
- Poetry or Not (preferably not!)
- Do It Anyway!
- Easter? So What?
- The Message of the Cross
- Critiquing #2: Writer Bashing (or, What Good is a Bad Critique?)
- Critiquing: #1 – Getting Punched in the Gut
- Lessons from a Lenten Rose
- National Poetry Month, a Novel, and Now
- Midweek Poetry Moment
- Keeping an eye on the goal
- March Madness 5: Believing in Yourself
- A Springtime ‘Morning Yawn’
- March Madness #4: Writing as Magic or Ministry
- A Green Moment in Time (Again)
- March Madness 3: Fragile Reflections
- Hanging in there on a Monday
- March Madness 2: Making a Noise
- Blog Tour: Denise Jaden’s FAST FICTION
- March Madness: Taking a deep breath…
- March Madness (i.e., #wipmadness) is almost here!
- Procrastinating on Snow Days
- Repetition: Reinforcing or Boring?
- Oh, Spring… wherefore art thou?
- My Bird Watching and ‘The Great Backyard Bird Count’
- People Watching and Developing Fictional Characters
- Winter Cold and Olympic Gold
- Having my say about procrastinating
- Looking and seeing are not the same thing
- How to encourage the germ of an idea
- Cover Design in Less Than Two Minutes (a reprise)
- More on the subject of book covers
- When ‘gluing one’s butt in a chair’ takes on new significance
- Judging books by their covers…
- In writing and in life, “caveat emptor”
- What colours your writing and takes it from mundane to memorable?
- Is it perspective or point of view?
- There’s light, and then there’s enlightenment
- Still Saturday: A Weekend Blessing
- Winner of Christmas Eve Book Draw
- Christmas!
- Christmas Week
- Book Review & Giveaway: REBELLIOUS HEART by Jody Hedlund
- Facing Fears: Admissions of a Writing Introvert
- Christmas preparations, secular and sacred
- Finding new gems among the old
- Writing ‘ho-hum’ fiction
- Blame everything on the weather!
- Transitioning from Thanksgiving into Advent
- Impressed by the impressive
- Transitioning from Autumn to Winter and Pre-Christmas
- The squeaky wheel… or bird!
- Yuck: aka the not-so-common cold
- Remembrance Day 2013
- Using graphics and editing in home décor & writing
- Skipping the present to get to the future
- It’s a long way to go (but it’s worth it)
- Conference Aftermath…
- Photos from THE Conference
- ‘Taint Happenin’
- Slogging or skimming along…
- Autumn’s Glow
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Reprise: At the Heart of the Story
- Reprise: An Autumn Interlude
- Queries and Submissions… Oh, my!
- Keeping the writer’s head above water
- Campfire Musings on Life
- Remembering Sara
- The (sometimes) irrelevance of statistics
- Fearing the transformation… writer to author
- Too focused for my own good…
- Personal Gifts and Fall Priorities
- Journeying IV – Coming Home
- Journeying III
- Journeying II
- Journeying
- Friday Findings…
- A new day dawning…
- Gone Too Soon…
- This BC writer’s rant…
- A time for prayer
- A sunny Monday morning reminiscence…
- Seeing the bright side in the unexpected
- Giving readers a chance to catch their breath…
- A word about observation
- Choosing the right plant is a little like finding a publisher.
- Times of Turbulence
- Active and passive waiting
- Still Saturday: God’s handiwork
- On the beach… renewing the writer’s spirit
- Emerging into the light
- What about all those secondary characters?
- Finding words to express the inexpressible
- Seasonal Ups and Downs in Life and Writing
- Father’s Day Family Things
- Are you leaving footprints?
- Finding the Missing Bee… er, Word
- Saved, Backed Up and Lost… aka, when precious files go missing
- Still Saturday: Wonder-filled
- I’ve discovered what it takes to succeed!
- A rose is still a rose, so what’s the point of changes?
- Contemplating blog changes…
- Does your home décor match your writing style?
- Discovering the obscure…
- Just bearing with it!
- Bits of joy on the journey
- Taking my own advice…
- Sometimes it takes a little effort
- Just slug it out
- In which some things get turned upside down!
- The Frustration of Misunderstanding
- BOOK REVIEW: A NOBLE GROOM by Jody Hedlund
- Observations from nature: creativity in the making
- How do you pick a name (for a cat or a character)?
- All things new…
- Patience and Endurance…
- Springtime is an oxymoron
- BOOK REVIEW: Christine Lindsay’s CAPTURED BY MOONLIGHT
- It’s that ‘same old, same old’ routine
- Looking over my shoulder (or… how life changes)
- In praise of “the birds of the heavens”…
- Who do you depend on?
- Taking a risk; making a start
- Seen in passing…
- Are you motivated by the destination or the journey?
- And the winner is…
- eBook Giveaway and Author Interview: Susan J. Reinhardt
- Revisions: How complicated can they be?
- The first of April brings a fresh writing challenge
- The Glory of Easter
- Yes, it is!
- 8073
- There’s a palm tree in my bathroom!
- Fitting in or standing out — are we fictitious characters or our real selves?
- Collections… or, why I have rocks and wood in my house
- Spring Things
- Going Green?
- When is a piano like a story?
- Looking for Perfection
- Finding the bright spot
- Movement and Rhythm in Fiction
- What do you do with used books?
- Tiptoeing into technology
- IT’S MARCH MADNESS TIME!
- A Sense of Home… in life and writing
- A Brief Hiatus
- Different Reflections
- Doing little and getting behind in everything (aka Multi-tasking)
- Doing Research… and lovin’ it!
- Mixed Messages
- Baseboards and Oversights
- All God’s Creatures…
- This Writer’s Daily Bread (and some baking, too)
- The Squirrel Saga Continues (aka Knowing when to quit)
- Wednesday’s Words of Worship: Life Shadows
- Seeing despite the fog
- Squirrel! Squirrel!
- A Winter Day
- Monday Morning
- Oops!
- Welcoming a Debut Author
- A Doggy Dilemma
- God’s design in nature, life and writing
- The Colour of Winter
- What will this New Year mean for your writing?
- Christmas Joy!
- A Song for Today…
- It’s just a Nativity set, isn’t it?
- What about Christmas details in our writing?
- Will Christmas cards become obsolete?
- The new and the old
- Does nostalgia fuel your writing?
- Candles & Greenery, Magic & Mystery
- ‘The Next Big Thing’ Meme
- Subtle Differences… or maybe not so subtle
- It’s coming: a new month… a new season… a time of preparation
- How do you describe the bite of winter’s chill?
- What constitutes success for a writer?
- Focal Points in Photography and Fiction Writing
- An early bit of Christmas nostalgia
- Bright Idea — but not mine!
- The Missing Bits
- Lest We Forget – 2012
- All Hallows’ Eve
- Fall Changes Everything
- Glorious Colour or Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud? (Take #2)
- More Conference Thoughts and an Inadequate Thank You
- Now THAT was a conference!
- Off to a good start!
- In a fog… (in which I complain about suitcases)
- Is there still time?
- Writing Thoughts from the Garden
- Surrounded by Changes
- What prompts us to say ‘Thank you’?
- Book Reviews and Giveaway — WRITING WITH A HEAVY HEART and NEVER ENOUGH — Author Denise Jaden
- The Curse of My TBR List
- It’s a little like Christmas in October!
- My Rock
- Freedom, Frustration and a Gravel Quarry
- Interview Elsewhere (at Charlie’s blog)
- The Music of Words
- Five-Minute Challenge: Musing about CHANGE
- Getting Ready, Preparation, Organization — Whatever you want to call it
- Simplicity
- Both Sides of the Fence
- Small Things
- Shhh… I’m writing!
- Seasons of life in transition
- Waiting on God’s Timing
- 7058
- Secrets and a giveaway from author Jody Hedlund
- When sunsets and stories are “too quiet”
- September’s Eve
- The View from Here
- From Beside Quiet Waters
- Time for Refreshment
- When the clouds roll in (or, dealing with disappointment)
- Do we need ideal conditions to produce our best writing?
- Finding Solitude and Serenity (or… this writer’s ideal retreat)
- #WIPMADNESS Final Winners
- Smelling the Flowers
- #WIPMADNESS Week #5 Check-in: Growing and Timing
- Preparing for the Olympic Games
- What’s one tree, more or less?
- #WIPMADNESS Week #4 Check-in — Focus (or, lack thereof)
- Building a Manuscript
- Making an Impact
- #WIPMADNESS WEEK #3 – Basics of the Craft
- Still Saturday: Light
- Where Writing Begins
- Sweet Memories
- #WIPMADNESS Week #2 – Excuses, excuses, excuses!
- Still Saturday: Glory of the skies…
- How do you make time for writing in the summer?
- Using more than half a brain (or, hints for successful querying)
- The Fourth of July
- JULY #WIPMADNESS – Week 1
- Still Saturday: Pathways
- Making a Difference
- “I sing in the shadow of your wings.”
- The Unexpected in Life and Literature
- Plots and Subplots (and a request for prayer)
- “Why should I write it for you?” asks Ms. Muse
- Is writing without passion worth the effort?
- Still Saturday: Leaves of Spring
- Life Lessons from the Garden
- Slipping and sliding through a novel’s first draft
- Music in Our Manuscripts
- Still Saturday: a Sunbeam’s Kiss
- The Old and the Older
- It’s today! SiWC registration opens today!
- Lineup at the Non-existent Birdfeeder and Breakfast Bar
- Still Saturday: Splendor
- What if we all believed we were gifted?
- What’s to be done with the rough material?
- Is more and bigger necessarily better?
- Still Saturday: Lily of the Valley
- Rhododendrons are happening!
- What’s in a name (or a title)?
- Word Games and the Writer’s Brain
- Still Saturday: Unfurling and Reaching
- Paving the way to publication
- Stereotyping the Sexes
- The Precarious Part of Mondays
- Weekend Reflection: Light and Shadows
- Starting again from scratch
- Getting the upper hand (or maybe not)
- The Effect of Self-censoring
- Wandering Weekend Moments
- Is there one right way to write?
- Publishing Realities
- A Different Kind of Conference
- Not-So-Still Saturday: Making Things Happen
- Escaping the everyday in a book or a box
- It’s just the beginning
- Adapting, or letting our writing dreams die
- Still Saturday: Keeping Watch
- More precious than words
- Why crocodile skin may not be the best defense for writers
- A Writer’s Interdependency
- Still Saturday: All Things New
- Knowing when to turn your back
- Longevity in Antiques and Writing
- Ordinary or Extraordinary — what’s the difference?
- Christ the Lord is Risen Today
- Still Saturday: Looking Deeply
- Wood for a Cross
- Pussywillows and Pastels: Using the Seasons in Storytelling
- A lesson from the birds
- At Rest
- Culling (or, logging your manuscript’s debris)
- A View Obscured (or… looking for my novel’s perfect ending)
- Still Saturday: Listening for Silence
- The writer’s transition from winter into spring
- The Lucky 7 Meme
- A new season…
- Overlooking the Obvious
- Scripture Sunday: The Depths of the Sea
- An Irish Recipe and Blessing
- Are you focused on the future or fixated on the past?
- Storm Watching
- A Monday Admission
- I don’t know about you, but…
- The Writer’s Brain (that place where ‘the right word’ disappears)
- A Sunday Afternoon Meander
- Still Saturday: Creation’s Voice
- Of Reflections and Reflecting
- Teetering on the Writer’s Brink
- The psychology of colour in novel writing
- Still Saturday: Complementary Opposites
- Disintegrating stories, unlike buildings, have little heritage value
- The Impossible Dream: what keeps you from giving up?
- I. Am. A. Writer.
- Still Saturday: Embers
- The Concept of Aging and Time in Novel Writing
- ♥ Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥
- Roses for Remembrance
- Including traditions in your storytelling
- “… ridged inch deep with pearl”
- Claiming the Facts – Researching the Ridiculous
- Sunshine on Cedars
- Piecing things together… quilts and stories
- The dilemma of labelling Christian fiction… or not
- Escape Into Winter
- Catching up with memories
- “Every intricacy of twig…”
- A Winter Wander, and Contest Winners
- The Plot… er, the Snow, Thickens (There’s a Giveaway, too!)
- Sunshine, Shadows and Moving On
- Hoodoos
- Remembering…
- Monday Musing
- So, how’s your writing journey going?
- Following the Road Signs
- Starting Again
- A worthwhile challenge: can we do it?
- ‘Tis Christmas!
- The Coming Birthday Party
- Making the most of your December writing time
- Time, Christmas Traditions and Memories
- Arguments are for the birds!
- The Eagles at Harrison River
- Learning patience by birdwatching
- What colours your writing?
- Patience may be a virtue, but….
- Ice
- Blowdowns and Abandoned Writing Dreams
- Advent Waiting
- Since when is a writer like moss?
- The Long Road to Publication
- Frozen Light
- New Perspectives
- A writing lesson gleaned from rose hips
- Icy Layers and Scene Building
- Undercurrents (Again)
- Imagination at Work II
- A Little Seasonal Meandering
- Talking about hospitality…
- The sound of writing versus silence
- That ‘Canine Wrecking Ball’ again
- Are we poisoning our chances for publication?
- Imperfections in Life and Writing
- Changing the world, one heart at a time
- Only a week until NaNoWriMo!
- What happens at SiWC….
- Trying to Hide in a Crowd
- Fleeting Whispers of Writing Grandeur
- How organized is your writing compared to your gardening?
- How does perspective affect mood in a novel?
- “For the Beauty of the Earth…”
- Of Babies and Thanksgiving Blessings
- Keeping Our Facts Straight
- The Simplicity of Nature’s Art
- Blackberry Memories
- The Shifting Sands of Life
- Trying and falling short. Then what?
- Losing Sara
- Is there a right or wrong age for success as an author?
- A Wet Welcome to Fall
- Ghost Writing versus Co-writing
- Book Giveaway Reminder (and Winner!)
- Retired again… or, ready for new challenges?
- Book Giveaway and Author Interview: Jody Hedlund
- Reading instead of, or in addition to, writing
- Showing, not telling: a sensual taste experience
- I Don’t Have Time (or Do I?)
- Finding the Way
- Being Influenced
- Seeing Clearly
- September Signals
- The effect of nurture… in a landscape, on a writer
- Time Changes Everything… in Life and Writing
- The value of supportive friendships
- Taking a Break
- There’s light, and then there’s LIGHT
- Feathers and Friends: a Comparison
- The Lupin’s Ambiguous Beauty
- Query Letter Advice: How to Avoid Being Buried in the Landslide
- The Writer’s Eureka Moment
- Writing and Fence Building
- Author Interview: David Ebright
- What’s right and wrong with Christian fiction?
- Inspiration in Unlikely Places
- Refilled and ready to write again
- Time for Refreshment
- Trying to make it perfect… or, revision frustration
- Finding the words to show, not tell
- The right outlook makes a big difference during revisions!
- Evening Vignette
- Using Photography in Writing
- Challenging Changes
- Le Mot Juste (Again)
- Sharing Sunday Thoughts
- Author Interview: Joylene Nowell Butler
- A Snow Queen Greets Summer
- The power of perspective
- Barbed Beauty and a Bicycle Ride
- Guest Posting
- A Vocation or Avocation?
- Making appropriate use of quirkiness in our characters
- The example of a dog’s devotion
- Springtime Shades of Green
- Renovation and Revision Chaos
- Desk Deliberations
- Go, Canucks, Go!
- Know where you’re going, whether walking or writing
- What makes a good book stand out?
- What or who supports you in your writing?
- Monday Musings on Friday
- Roaming Bookstores and Seashores
- No, You’re Not Ready to Publish
- Take one character and call me in the morning…
- Saying the Occasional “No” Without Guilt
- Happy Mother’s Day!
- Another eBook Winner!
- Some gifts are like showers of blessings
- The winner’s choice…
- Interview: Author Christine Lindsay
- Curiosity and Creativity
- What I learned about writing from a crochet pattern.
- What’s the point of novelists writing for magazines?
- He has risen!
- Broken
- Books as Wall Art?
- Beware of the writing expert!
- Talk about seeing red!
- Chasing the Chill from a Snowy Spring Morning
- You only thought typewriters were obsolete!
- That’s Not a Real Book!
- “Witchdoctor” Winner!
- Surviving Despite the Odds
- Book Review & Giveaway: Our Witchdoctors Are Too Weak
- Writing and Cyber Friendships
- In the stillness of the night
- Giveaway Winner!
- One Writer’s Admission and a Giveaway
- Monday Morning Fog Brain
- A little late…
- Bridging the distance between beginnings and endings
- New beginnings… or, please not another revision!
- ‘Show Me the Voice’ Blogfest
- Book Review: AS GRANDMA SAYS by Judith Robl
- The Luck o’ the Irish, and other blessings
- A New Notebook for Words
- Reflections on a Mess
- Burying Writing Beneath the Research
- Research and Writing, an Inevitable Combination
- Paralyzed by Fear
- “Life is Good”
- Surprised by God
- March Madness Challenge 2011
- Whiteout! Navigating a Storm of Information
- I Like It. She Doesn’t.
- Windows on Winter
- Twitter and the #amwriting hashtag
- Can writing fiction change reality?
- Variations on the Romance Genre
- My Contribution to the Romance Blogfest
- Food for Thought… or, Taking Care of the Writerly Body
- Deer Friends
- Writing the Significant Versus the Superficial
- Valentine’s Day Romance Blogfest
- Are you a hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist?
- When things get a little rough…
- Whose fault is it when writing stutters to a stop?
- Does Success Really Matter?
- Joy in One Thousand Gifts
- Mid-winter Writing Blahs
- Hoarding on the Bottom Shelf
- Is Writing an Art?
- Writing Insecurities
- Considering Defeat
- Giving and Receiving with Grace
- Supporting Debut Authors
- I Can’t Write with Surround Sound
- Beginnings, Middles and Endings
- Taking Stock of our Writing Inventory
- When Plan A Doesn’t Work Out
- Facing the Unfamiliar With Confidence
- Is Writing Professionally the Ultimate Publication Goal?
- Resolutions and the Journey of Life and Writing
- It’s Christmas
- A Christmas Eve Smile
- The Story, Simple and Unadorned
- My Time to Write
- Feeling Swamped?
- There’s a Conspiracy Against Writers
- A Unique Form of Memoir
- Light In the Darkness
- Metamorphosis of a Cabin… ahem, I mean Novel
- What’s the Point?
- Misplaced Effort… Oh, Bother!
- Now What? Life After NaNoWriMo
- Writers Don’t Learn Writing By Writing
- Waiting in Hope
- Whispers of Winter
- Progress of sorts…
- Pre-Winter Blasts and Blusters
- Writers Supporting Writers
- Taking a Closer Look
- Sparks and Roaring Fires
- Making Better Use of My Time
- Distractions
- Lest We Forget
- Autumn Nostalgia
- 2010 Giller Prize Winner
- #amwriting and #nanowrimo
- How many? You’ve got to be kidding!
- Discovering the Shadows
- Three, Two, One, Go! NaNoWriMo’s Underway
- November? NaNoWriMo? Really? A Rebellious Wrimo Speaks Out
- SiWC in Retrospect
- Unresponsive Brain Cells Don’t Matter, Do They?
- Conference Time! Yaaaay!
- In a Fog
- Inukshuk: You’re On the Right Path
- Supporting a Young Singer/Songwriter’s Dream
- Taking a Risk in Writing
- Thankful for the Ordinary Everyday
- What’s the Word on Genres?
- Refilling the Well
- A Weekend Giggle
- Writer Bashing (or, What Good is a Bad Critique?)
- Writing Roots and Memories
- Songwriting from Humble Beginnings
- Getting Punched in the Gut
- Listen Some More
- Take Time to Listen
- ACFW Genesis Awards
- Launched: Author Denise Jaden
- Evening Light
- Looking and Seeing
- I’m somewhere else today
- Not Yet… Noooooo!!!
- Learning the Ropes
- Subject vs. Composition vs. Balance vs. Structure
- When you know technology has gone too far…
- Eye to Eye: a Spider Encounter
- On the Go
- All Good Things…
- Offline but Still Writing
- Dreaming of a Private Writing Retreat
- Achievement means first making a start
- Writing the Last Word — Yours
- Simmering Summer
- My Philosophy of Writing… or, Am I a Fraud?
- Versatility With Substance?
- Holidays, Schmolidays!
- And the winning caption is…
- Keep Writing!!!
- A Caption Contest Giveaway
- Words Old and New
- Don’t Knock Everydayness
- Canine Accomplishment
- The Real Reason…
- Finalists Announced for Geoffrey Bilson Award
- Mornings, or maybe not…
- The Rejection Collection
- 2701
- Do You See and Hear Effectively?
- Achieving Our Personal Style
- “A Canadian Legend”
- A Quote of Note
- A Royal Canada Day
- Another Use for Technology
- Wordle Reminiscence and a Word of Thanks
- Humming along…
- I had no idea where I was going…
- In the Mood
- The Seasons of Writing
- As We Think So Shall We Be
- Thankful for Being Me
- Weekend Addictions
- Methods of Revising and Weeding
- Doubt and Discouragement
- Springtime Waiting and Wanting
- Today’s the Day and I Did It!
- Taking Care of Creative You
- On What Rock Do You Build?
- Getting In the Mood
- Immaturity Forever
- Lies and Truth Revealed
- Lying My Way to an Award
- Am I the Only One?
- Climbing Ladders and Reaching for Success
- To Network or Not
- BlogJog… jogging through the Blogosphere
- Google Doodles and Search Options
- Things In Common, Or Not
- An Individual Approach Despite All the Advice and Non-Advice
- There’s Life, and Then There’s Real Life
- Taking a Break
- Whining Is An Art
- Unexpected Glimpses
- Something Else They Said
- Writing Advice Worth Remembering
- Terry Fox Remembered
- Beautiful Blog or Blogger Award
- Windy Thoughts on Writing
- Writing a Really Bad Novel
- Facing Failure
- Easter Dawn
- Fear, Faith, and the Foggy Swamp in Between
- Of Light, Brightness and Sight
- A Restful, Rest-filled Place
- Where Was the Beginning?
- Help a Library-Loving Blogger
- Of Red Mittens and March Madness
- Bloggers’ Library Loving Challenge
- Signs of Springtime
- Cover Design in Less Than Two Minutes
- Spreading the Green Around
- Of Shampoos and Book Covers
- It’s Not Too Soon To Start
- What Does Your Writing Do For You?
- Reaching, Stretching… Beyond the Limits of Our Comfort Zone
- A New Week
- Photo Memories of a Special Companion
- “Just a Dog”
- Salad Greens and Aborted Efforts
- My March Madness
- Expressing Emotion
- The Last Medal
- Which Award Would You Value Most?
- A Writerly Link to the Past
- Sunshine Award
- It May Be Winter, But….
- News ‘n Notes
- When Is It Okay Not to Write?
- Keeping Track of Achievement
- It’s Gold!
- O Canada!
- Book Giveaway Winner!
- Book Giveaway – Last Chance
- EYES OF ELISHA: A Book Review and Giveaway
- The Canine Crowd
- Portraying Pets With Personality
- The iPad Is Coming
- The Prolific Blogger Award: Acknowledging Our Community
- Just Do It!
- Buried Alive
- Carpe Diem for Writers
- Owling and Howling Voices
- BAD LATITUDE by author Dave Ebright – a Review
- Disparity
- Anguish in Haiti
- An Agent Retires
- One Month to the Olympics!
- Finding Failure or Success
- Mac or PC?
- A Sneak Preview of CROSSING OCEANS
- Interview with YA Author Jennifer R. Hubbard
- News ‘n Notes
- ?
- Getting the Gears in Motion
- [cough] Happy New Year [cough]
- Anticipating a Fresh Start
- The Various Facets of Hope
- The Squint Test, or Tolerating the Imperfect
- Official ‘Kissing Day’ Blogfest
- Christmas Melodies
- Dealing With Roadblocks
- A Secret in the Snow
- A Novelist’s Tools: Scrivener Software
- I Didn’t Want to Know That!
- Talking About Writing, or Why My Eyes Glaze Over
- Have You Written a Novel?
- Fat Chance
- A “Green” Christmas Preview
- On the Cusp
- A NaNoWriMo Winning Effort
- Let’s See… Thanksgiving, Christmas or Both?
- What is Self-publishing?
- Harlequin and Thomas Nelson Publishing Hullabaloo
- Surging and Waning Words
- NaNoWriMo’s Halfway Point and a Blogging Milestone
- Silence, Solitude, Sanctuary and the Son
- Getting Busy and Staying Busy
- Remembrance Day
- NaNoWriMo – Ten Down, Twenty to Go
- Hibernating
- Just Talkin’…
- Interview with Canadian Author Laura Best
- NaNoWriMo – Let’s GO!!!
- NaNoWriMo – On Your MARK…
- The Olympic Torch
- NaNoWriMo – Getting SET…
- NaNoWriMo – Getting READY…
- Autumn in Transition
- Guest Blogger Jordan McCollum on Beating Writers’ Block
- Talent Without Work
- Pre-planning for NaNoWriMo
- Brushing Elbows With SiWC
- A Writing Talisman Can Provide Motivation
- Palin Book Look-a-likes
- Undercurrents
- More NaNoWriMo Thoughts…
- Two Weeks to NaNoWriMo’s Annual Word Frenzy
- Puzzle Break
- I’m Not Here, I’m There
- National Book Award Finalists
- How Bothered Are We About the New Winnie-the-Pooh?
- Thanksgiving and Thanksliving
- At the Heart of the Story
- Everyone Can Use a Bit of Help Once in a While
- Exposé of a Writing Failure
- How Many Character Flaws are Too Many?
- Doing Unto Others…
- Silly Seuss
- More Autumn Beauty
- Conference Reflections via Wordle
- An Autumn Interlude
- Oh, Yeah! I Can Relate.
- Goodbye Summer Reading, Hello Fall Gardening
- It’s Mine! No, It’s Mine!
- Boundless (Bouncing) Joy!
- Is it Outlining or Plotting?
- Kreativ Blogger Award – Part 2
- The Kreativ Blogger Award – Part 1
- Island Isolation
- Returning to Reality
- Maybe word pictures aren’t visual, but photos are
- Advice for a Blogger (Me)
- Writerly Glimpses
- The Abbotsford Killer
- A Natural Kind of Beauty
- It’s Reading, Writing and Relaxing Time!
- Time Management Strategies for Writers
- On Fridays, Endings and Beginnings
- “The Grandpappy of All Heat Waves”
- Summer Storm
- The Writers’ Community
- A Look at Earth From Space
- Can It Be Forty Years Ago?
- Glorious Colour or Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud?
- One Piece (Word) at a Time
- Writing Delay Tactics Revisited
- Contemplating the Must-Haves of a Writing Website
- Supporting a Fellow Writer
- Keep Doin’ It
- Novelum Interruptus
- Tails of Woe
- After one year what’s next? Anything?
- A Tangle of Mixed Metaphors
- Goals versus Challenges and Resolutions versus Intentions
- Whose Deadline is it, Anyway?
- If I Had to Pick Just One Book…
- Serving Up Omelets for Virtual Breakfast
- Something to say?
- Taking Control of the I.E.
- How much is too much of a good thing?
- What number is your favourite word?
- Time for a Change
- She’s Baaaaaaack!
- Hawking Advice on the Internet
- Nothing is ever simple, including Blogging
- I take it all back. I AM complaining!
- Did Someone Say It’s Summer?
- Myths About Creativity and Thinking Outside the Box
- A Humbling Encounter
- Who is a Writer?
- It seems that Susan Boyle has done it again
- Singing en masse
- Cool Bookshelves
- Remembering the Midnight Sun
- Held Hostage by a Robin
- Promises, Promises
- Reading and Not Writing
- New Beginnings… Again!
- Weird Wildlife and Fluttering Feathers
- Cheekiness Personified!
- There’s No Sin in Being Good to Yourself
- A Flowbee By Any Other Name…
- It’s Never Too Late to Try
- Discussing (Not Smoking) Marijuana
- The First Step
- Shared Decision Making
- Take a Cue from the Boy Scouts and Be Prepared
- Butterflies, Fireflies and Fleeting Ideas
- A Mañana Morning
- The “Wow” Factor
- Thanks anyway, but I didn’t ask for your advice.
- The Son Has Risen!
- Grumbling Big Time
- Whose Story Is It Anyway?
- Seasonal Transitions
- Imagination at Work
- Where Does the Mind Go?
- Today’s Musings
- A Green Moment in Time
- Jellybean Philosophy
- On getting no pleasure from writing
- A Notable Quotable
- “Dog Speak” Says More Than You Might Imagine
- Writers Have Their Own Version of Time
- “… her coat is silver grey”
- Backing Down?
- The Kindle 2 Controversy Clarified
- More on the Ws (or Double Ewes): What?
- Weather, Whether or Not
- Despair Takes Many Forms
- Maybe a Wee Bit TOO Tidy?
- Privacy Required
- Look Where You’re Going!
- Writing for…. ?
- Sharing Our Memories
- Interesting Process
- One Year and Counting
- Real Life Murder Story
- Books, Books… I Need More Books (like a hole in the head)
- A Daily Dose of Motivation
- Cancelled Opportunities
- It’s a Clicking Addiction
- A Wardrobe of Writing Techniques
- The Soul of a Truly Good Story
- Oh, Bear of Little Brain That I Am!
- I Love Mondays!
- Which shelf would you put it on?
- Making Tasks Harder Than They Need To Be
- Inauguration Tuesday
- A Timely Topic (heh-heh, sorry!)
- A pen would be so much easier!
- A Tree is a Tree is a Tree…
- Beta Readers
- Of Books and Bathrooms
- Making Those Dreaded New Year’s Resolutions
- Chilly Christmas Morning
- ‘Tis Christmas
- Winter arrives on Christmas Sunday
- Winter Metamorphosis
- The Banana Belt Goes South for the Winter
- Guilty Pleasure
- Tenacity despite the odds
- This is Canadian Democracy?
- Thirty Days Hath November
- The Significant versus the Superficial
- Obstacles or Opportunities
- I Don’t Have Time (or do I?)
- The Bottom Shelf
- Tuesday Twosome
- The Authentic Me
- A Canine Wrecking Ball in Demolition Mode
- Non-Halloween Masks
- SiWC Afterthoughts
- Check List
- What Did I Say?
- Be thankful you can raise a little hell
- So Many Books, So Little Time
- That’s Some Pumpkin!
- Plowing Through the Poop
- Raise-a-Reader
- Seasonal Reminiscing
- Black and White and Colours of the Rainbow
- Taken For Granted
- Bring on the Lemonade!
- Be Still
- Le Mot Juste
- Resident Bears
- The Scent and Sound of Rain
- The cheque is in the mail…
- There’s just no pleasing everyone…
- An Encouraging Rejection is an Anomaly
- Contributing to the Statistics
- Communication Challenges
- Searching Through the Morass
- Today’s the Day!
- Creepy Crawlies
- Purple Prose
- Coffee on the Deck
- Sound versus Silence
- Morning Madness
- Partying in the Bedroom
- “What’s Canada Day?”
- Summer Contradictions
- Becoming Visible
MUSINGS 