For so very long, writing was something I did but never shared with anyone. Sure, I wrote a lot of impersonal items for work in my various jobs over the last 20 years or so, but the fiction I wrote was something few people had ever read. Until now. A lot of people have been asking me why did I write this book. I suppose it’s a good question – and a fairly obvious one – but I have to…..
Quite often, people are stunned when I tell them I voluntarily moved from a major Canadian city to a town of less than 3,500 people in the Canadian Arctic. And they are even more puzzled when they realize I moved from a major Canadian city (the nation’s capital, no less) of my own accord. At first, I came north for a job. Plain and simple. I wanted to get into journalism or even a nice communications job, but wasn’t having…..
I have a confession to make. When it comes to writing, I don’t really have a process. I suppose if I did have a more developed system, I might find I could be writing more. But that’s never how it’s worked for me. Regardless of what I am working on – whether it’s for work or for pleasure, based in reality or a work of fiction – I never just sit down and write. There’s no rhyme or reason to…..