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  • May 25, 2021

    The Many Faces of Writer's Block

    Despite the fact that I don’t really believe in it, the words Writers’ Block always conjure up a dark, amorphous cloud in my mind.  Which is ironic, because the part I don’t believe is that there’s ...

  • March 29, 2021

    Writing/Not Writing

    Some language cracks the shell of a thing open, so we can newly see what’s being described. And some language forms a perfect egg shell around what it aims to describe, obscuring more than it reveals. ...

  • Why Bother Writing?
    Why Bother Writing?
    August 21, 2020

    Why Bother Writing?

    A few nights ago, I woke up to the sound of a wolf howling into the bowl of the sky. We all know the sound, I’d heard versions of it my whole life, but I’d never actually heard one in the flesh like ...

  • Retreating from writing
    Retreating from writing
    August 04, 2020

    Retreating from writing

    Sometimes our stories practically beg to come to life on the page. Yet despite that begging, that longing, that desire to write, stories almost never just 'come to life' as easily as we might have imagined. ...

  • A Letter to Writers Who Are Not Writing (Right Now)
    A Letter to Writers Who Are Not Writing (Right Now)
    May 09, 2019

    A Letter to Writers Who Are Not Writing (Right Now)

    Dear Fellow Writer,My life is paused right now. It stutters like a record in a too-worn groove. Morning comes and then night. I’m able to colour in the basics of my day. I go to work. I write my freelance ...

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