Previously I believed I could not write fiction. It’s not important why I thought so, just note that I went from “I can’t,” to “here’s…
Here’s a variation on the proverbial desert island question: What if you were to be stranded on an island and could take as many books,…
My father was still working full time at age 68. When I asked him if he was thinking at all about retirement, he answered that…
Nobody storms the Bastille with their mouth full. If Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had had the insight to change the tax system to give…
On impulse one evening I googled ‘short story contests Canada’. And guess what? The CBC short story contest is under way! The deadline for submissions…
The writing course I signed up for is expensive, time consuming, and a challenge to my definition of story-telling. I have been second guessing why…
Can you, (‘should’ you?), create for free? Of course you ‘should’. Create anyway. I created ten chapters of a comic series, Contentment is for Cows….
New York was originally settled by the Dutch, who resented the English moving in, who resented the Irish moving in, who resented the Italians, and…
A meme is a unit of cultural information spread by imitation. Britannica.com My 1982 Oxford English Dictionary does not include a definition of ‘meme’. A quick…
A better, more accurate description of a graphic novel is to call it sequential art. This term gives a little more respect to the artist…