Pen & Sword: The Author’s Journey in Writing Swordfights
How far would you go for your art? Would you risk a duel at dawn? Face an armoured warrior? Fight an axe-wielding assailant, with only […]
Making the Cow Creamer Matter
Writing light comic fiction is tricky, because funny won’t carry a full-length novel on its own. Something big needs to be at stake, and I […]
Spring is here!
Or at least the print proof of our Spring 2015 issue is. We never get tired of that first glimpse of the book in its […]
Magpies on Cherry Trees
It’s the season for spring flowers in Vancouver, and the birds outside our window are singing their poetry to the beat of the wind in […]
A Great Exchange
An exchange of power between characters is a fantastic way to get a tight rhythm going, whether in dialogue or with a physical struggle. In […]
Writer’s Block: Resources, and Strategies
This week I promised to write up some ways to bypass writer’s block. If you have more I’d love to hear them. Like sleep mnemonics, it’s […]
50 Shades of Fan Fiction
I’ll admit I only made it through a quarter of 50 Shades of Grey. It needed an editor, but more importantly, it needed to be […]
The Love Offices
As a Valentine’s day treat we have an excerpt of the whimisical story ‘The Love Offices, Josephine, and Valentino’s’ by emerging UK author Kirsty Favell. […]
Writer’s Block, Logic, and Trust
The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘writer’s block’ as the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing. “I […]
Bowen Island Writing Retreat
The Muse showed up. That’s all you really need to know. If you’re a writer, you’ll know how that tastes, feel the warmth it creates, […]