TONIGHT! 7:30 PM EST – ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU CAN ASK ME ANYTHING! What can nanotechnology do in the human body? How many hours did it take for me to write True Born? Can Canadians get away with writing genre fiction? What’s my favourite yoga pose? Is it just me or does William Shatner run the world? … Continue reading
Truth be told, narrators pretty much determine the success of any novel. Good narrators will leave you spellbound to the worlds they weave. Poorly realized narrators, on the other hand, are like bad dates…regret, regret, regret. First person narrators have become the style of choice in the past twenty years or so. That’s because the … Continue reading
Describing what it felt like to stand on the lip of the ocean at sunset. Easy, right? You could probably go on for pages and pages. But what if you’re wrestling with a werewolf detective before the local vampire clan attacks? What if the assassin hired by Zob is about to level your building with … Continue reading
Description can be your best friend. Equally, it can be like that frenemy who talks about you behind your back and steals your boyfriend. I’ve been on both ends of this particular lesson. As a Master’s student in Creative Writing one of my teachers went so far as to indicate that I “overdid” description in … Continue reading
