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November 08, 2022How to tame your nerves at a live/online reading
By Lindsay Zier-VogelThe other week, I stood on the edge of a stage down at Harbourfront, waiting for my cue. I wasn’t nervous about reading. After a year of online events, I was excited to read to a live audience, but ...
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August 26, 2022Grant Writing: Part 2
By Lindsay Zier-VogelIt’s grant writing season! There are a slew of deadlines coming up and though the process can feel daunting, there is money out there to support writing and we should all be applying!As a professional ...
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June 10, 2022Writing with kids: Impossible or sometimes maybe possible?
By Lindsay Zier-VogelSummer is nigh, which means picnics and sunlight until 10 p.m. and swimming pools and watermelon. And it also means my kids are going to be around a lot more, and finding windows to write is going to ...
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April 21, 2022How to Start a Writers’ Group
By Lindsay Zier-VogelI spent years working on a novel about a lifeguard who was terrified of drowning. Years, of sitting in the same corner of the same coffee shop bashing out draft after unreadable draft. And the only feedback ...
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March 29, 2022The challenges (and joys) of receiving feedback
By Lindsay Zier-VogelI am not proud of it, but my initial response to feedback on my writing is an instant NOPE. No way! ABSOLUTELY NOT. “What if you switched the point of view to third person?”NOPE. No way! ABSOLUTELY ...
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February 11, 2022Making a skating rink, and other tricks for stepping away from a work-in-progress
By Lindsay Zier-VogelOn a particularly cold Friday morning, I piled my kids in a car with snow pants and skates and a pile of books and we headed to a cottage rental. We all were desperate for a change of scenery, and I was ...
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January 07, 2022A Writer’s Guide to Reading in 2022
By Lindsay Zier-VogelI read a lot of books in 2021. More than I ever have, except for maybe the summers when I was eight and would clear out the chapter book section at Humber Bay library. I have always been an escapist, ...
