Happy New Year! It must be time for me to post on my blog. What I Did with My Winter Holidays First, why do I hardly ever post? It’s not just “time,” because, let’s face it, we make the time for the things that we want to make the time…
Read MoreI interviewed Anita Daher, today's CreComm guest speaker and Winnipeg writer extraordinaire, by email just before classes started--but decided to save it for when she arrived to speak about her extensive experience as a children's writer. Note carefully her point about grammar and how editors roll their eyes! 1. What’s…
Read MoreDavid Elias will join us at Red River College Princess Street as Writer-in-Residence from November 8 to December 10. He will be available to read and comment on students’ creative writing. [caption id="attachment_211" align="alignright" width="227" caption="David Elias"][/caption] David is the author of four books of fiction. His work has been…
Read MoreI've been on Second Life, but I don't completely get it yet. I mean, I get the potential, but I haven't had an ah-ha moment. And I understand why I haven't. I don't know anyone there. Like a really, really elaborate social networking platform, SL has pretty much no point…
Read More... and mine. Every so often I get someone, maybe a student, maybe a friend of a friend, maybe just someone who found me on the internet, write to me asking: Please, please, can you read my manuscript? [caption id="" align="alignright" width="144" caption="Your friendly neighbourhood writer-in-residence, Maurice Mierau."][/caption]The answer is,…
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