(Any SBD this post earns will be sent directly to @WomenEmpowerment because I would like to support this worthy cause!).  I am about to start teaching a summer session of a business writing course.

I recently had the opportunity to host a book club fundraiser with my friend @jenlavallee.    A writer in our city is facing a difficult cancer diagnosis, and so we wanted to show our support

Have you heard of @schoolforsdg4? It’s a charity run school in Bangladesh that provides free education to 60 students. This school was created by @Azizbd who works tirelessly to make positive changes

I create creative writing prompts to share with participants of the writing workshops that I run with my good friend, @jenlavallee. Today the prompt that I shared was “make a writing bucket list.” I know

Award-winning Canadian author and self-publishing expert S.G. Wong took some time out of her busy writing life to chat with me about self-publishing. I went the traditional route with my book, but

I lost interest in Steemit for a while, but what brought me back is realizing the potential it has to positively impact peoples’ lives. I was lucky to come across the account of @Azizbd and his charitable

It’s easy enough to tinker with existing sentences, find stronger word choices, and delete a line here and there, but we should not be calling that kind of work revising… What we are doing when we are

I'm preparing to teach an in-person three-hour writing workshop on the fine art of scene writing. When I first joined Steemit, and had very, very few followers, I shared a post about showing (scene writing)

Before writing a piece of creative non-fiction, it’s a good idea to really consider what is possible within the genre. There are endless debates about the boundary line between fact and fiction –

In 2013, I published a book-length work of creative non-fiction titled Rosina, The Midwife with a literary press out of Victoria, British Columbia. Since the publication of my book, I have been teaching

I’m mostly vegan (for a lot of reasons), and I often get asked what I eat.    I think sometimes people just picture me eating a bowl of steamed kale (which, honestly, is pretty tasty with

The ache in her knuckles, a bone-deep pain when she bent her fingers or grasped or gripped, reminded her of all those days in the field: pulling, picking, planting. It seemed cliché to bother telling her

Getting started is sometimes the most difficult part of the creative writing process. The cursor blinks. The white page glares.     What should you write about?     Maybe

Steemit friends, help me out: where do you suggest we go for a short family vacation? This is normally the kind of thing I might ask on Facebook, but I’m really trying to get away from that platform.

Each Christmas, my sisters, mom and I do a handmade exchange. This year, with my dad’s help, I made bee hotels to gift and everyone loved them. I learned about bee hotels a few years ago when I attended

A while ago, I reviewed a book by Canadian author Lynne Bowen called Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia. I recently was re-reading some sections it (as I was purging books

Daily creative practice is something I welcome in my life. But, like almost everyone else, I’m busy and it can be hard to pull off. One of my favourite creative bloggers Elsie Larson of A Beautiful Mess

Now that holiday events are winding down and we have entered deep Christmas, those precious days before routines resume, I've had some time for reflecting. We've been able to take some time to hibernate

I’ve been working on little bits of my young adult novel, and have been having fun really digging into language again. I have this habit of connecting words (in my own head) when I’m going about

Last night, I shared some flash writing guidelines. I aim to follow these guidelines when I am drafting my own stories (or, if I stray from these rules, am aware that I am doing so). Recently, I had a