I’m not good at being a writer.
Because every time you don’t write in a coffee shop, a kitten explodes.
Writers: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Fellow writers are some of our worst enemies. I remember way back when I decided I was going to stop writing Watership Down fanfiction, over 13 years ago. I wrote a 150,000 monstrosity that I later had the misfortune pleasure of turning into Jaeth’s Eye. I had not written original fiction for years leading up …
When Writing Gets Personal
A quick thought, as I progress through my day: how do you keep your sanity when your writing starts to hit too close to home? The Agartes Epilogues is often funny, sprinkled with a lot of my characteristic black humour, but it is also deathly serious–perhaps one of my most serious novels. The themes run deep. Poverty. …
The Garibaldi Lake Hike
So, I’m turning 30 in two weeks, and originally we had planned to hike up to Black Tusk as sort of my turning-30 celebration. The idea was thrown around for a bit as we examined the logistics–who’s going to take care of the kids and dogs while doing it? How are we going to have …
Because, Kids, Mommy Can’t Afford the Mall
When my kids are bigger, I can imagine they’ll have something to say about the distinct lack of normal childhood activities in our household. I’ve been taking my daughter hiking since she was about a year old. It started as a way to lose weight and become a little more active after pregnancy. There was a whole summer …
