I got a lot of use out the delete button over the past month while working on my thesis novel. So far, the thesis process has gone down more or less like this: Draft one: 60,000 words. Written over two summers, including all the outlining and such. Draft two: 89,000…
Read MoreIn my intro screenwriting class, we do table reads of the students' short scripts before workshopping them. This year I started to notice that men seemed to be cast more than women. There's lot of research out there about unequal representation of gender in a variety of media. The Geena…
Read MoreHappy 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 MoreWell, I didn’t get as much writing done this summer as I would have liked, though I did finish a shitty first draft of a novel, which is something. I’m just about finished re-reading it, and boy, does it have holes (though I knew this as I was writing!). Now…
Read MoreI've been a doodler for a long time, and this past winter gained a bit of doodling confidence when I took a grad course in making comics with the wonderful Sarah Leavitt. Here's a link to some of the comics that we created in that class and in some of…
Read MoreIn no particular order... 1. America: the service really is better, notwithstanding the grumpy man at the New York Times booth (Picture not available). 2. But all the medical ads are unsettling. Also, did you know the art gallery doesn't allow guns on the premises? Now you do. [caption id=""…
Read MoreMyself and I realized that we hadn't posted anything for a while, so we sat down at our disorganized desk today to ask and answer a few questions. The theme: personal taste, naming the books, movies, TV, and music we've actually been into lately, because the actual titles can tell…
Read MoreI recently got tagged in the Canadian Writers’ Writing Process Blog Tour, which has been going around for months. I was tagged by Ottawa writer Cameron Anstee. So, I’ve got four questions to answer: 1. What am I working on? Well, this is awkward, because that was what my last…
Read MoreWhen you define yourself as a writer—or, I suspect, any kind of artist—no matter how awesome your day job is (mine sure is!), it can really bring you down not to have the time or energy to create. I went through a really low productivity period for a few years,…
Read MoreWhat I’m talking about is SPACE. Somewhere along the way, someone took my space from me. Okay, everyone took my space from me. I didn’t have it for very long, and I miss it so. I remember as a child, how I longed for my own room. Do kids even…
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