The countdown is on for my trip to Singapore. I leave early on Tuesday and one thing kind of concerns me. This always happens when I’m invited to a big event overseas. It’s like an extra potent case of stage fright. Double or triple anything I get when going to a local school. It’s because […]
It’s like there isn’t enough time in a day to do what needs doing. I finished up that presentation yesterday, and now I have two more days till I go to Singapore and a host of things that need doing. Sometimes I wish I had a secretary! Or a maid! I hate leaving the house […]
Today I went to a school about half an hour outside Toronto and presented ESL to Author to a group of grades six, seven and eights. ESL stands for English as a Second Language. Basically I talked about how I was an ESL student when I first arrived in Canada. For me to become an […]
is why did I become an author. The answer is simple and two-fold. The first and foremost reason is because I love stories. Ever since I was a kid I loved stories. I grew up during a time when teachers still read Bible stories to the class. I didn’t have a problem with that, and […]
It seems I’ve gotten rusty at writing picture books. It’s so weird. It’s the genre I started with and now it’s giving me a lot of trouble. I think I know why. When I first started writing I quickly realized that picture books were a lot harder than I thought they were, so I switched over to novels, wrote […]
25 Apr
Posted by: Rukhsana Khan in: self-image, writing
is that they’ll just be polite and say they liked your work. And feedback is crucial. It’s because you can get too close to your story and not see whether or not what you’re trying to say is really getting through to others. I feel like I’m writing a tutorial for goodness sakes! And the […]
My granddaughter came over to visit tonight. We went for a walk before it got too late, her, my daughter and my grandson. She’s only three and I thought the two kilometre walk I normally take would be too much for her, but she’s such a little trooper, she had no problems keeping up. She even insisted on pushing the stroller […]
One of my friends has disagreed with my theory on confident people. It was bound to happen. I even said I wasn’t sure my theory had any merit. She said: “…your theory was very interesting, though I don’t think it’s completely true. I know many people who are very confident but are also mean to others. […]
I’ve been talking to a friend about confidence, and asking myself what really constitutes it. I think true confidence, as opposed to bravado, is linked to sincerity. It comes through like a tone in all your dealings. It can’t be faked, and in fact I think trying to fake confidence is a sure way of […]
The worst thing about last week was how behind I got on my correspondence and stuff. I know people have these glamorous ideas of what an author does, especially a children’s author. That we spend all day playing with puppets or something. Um…no. Actually after I write my two pages (if I’m working on a […]