I’ve been holding off talking about it because I am constantly worried I might jinx it. But now that I can physically hold and smell the covered and bound 320 pages in my hands, it’s officially real. Real, really, real! I started working on The Department:… Read More
For the past two and a half years, I’ve been so caught up with finishing a project (a co-authored book that I also typeset and which will be printed this month) that I’ve forgotten how hard it is to start one. Presently, starting a new writing… Read More
I was being a diligent blogger recently, re-categorizing old posts and going through draft posts to see if there was anything interesting I’d written but neglected to publish. Oh, was there. A mountain of half-baked ideas, neglected buds of stories, and rants that sounded cleverer in my… Read More
The day I wrote 9,452 words was a transcribing day. I studiously listened to a slowed-down recording of the interview in question. I typed, paused, skipped back and repeated. I did this for hours. I allowed stretching, water, food and the occasional tweet about how terribly… Read More
“It was a pleasant café, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a café au lait. The waiter… Read More
My brain is pleasantly saturated this evening after a weekend packed with anecdotes, missives and stats about writing books in Canada in 2014. I spent two days at the Writers’ Guild of Alberta annual conference, where presenters were a mix of local authors, Canadian award-winners… Read More
Zoey Writes 