Got two chapters revised today when I thought I’d only, at most, get one. But somehow, after I finished putting this chapter into the eyes of the other character, I still had some stamina left, and I got started in on the next. It wasn’t that hard. Just really changing tenses, first person present into third […]

Sometimes, when I dwell on it, I can’t help cringing about the way I behaved when I was first starting out. And sometimes, when I’m feeling generous, I don’t even blame that instructor for asking me to leave that writing workshop I’d paid to join. I made all the typical newbie mistakes. Probably every single […]

I’m going to be interviewed on Shelagh Rogers radio show The Next Chapter tomorrow. It’s on CBC, which stands for Canadian Broadcasting Company and is national. It’s not the first time I’ve been on her show. But the first time was a different show. Years ago, when she was host of Sounds like Canada she was doing […]

I subscribe to an email newsletter from a group called CAIR which stands for Council on American Islamic Relations. They’re a Muslim advocacy group and they field all kinds of issues that arise with regards to problems Muslims face in America. Most of them have to do with women who are fired for wearing the […]

A few days ago, a lady emailed me with a problem. This is some of what she said: “…I am now in ….’s creative writing class, and sometimes i get an odd sense about him.  Many students in the class have read their work and he always writes good comments about their work down and verbalizes […]

I feel like I’m late to the blog party but better late than never! I’ve been eavesdropping on a lot of conversations lately about the whitewashing of book covers. As a full-fledged member of an ethnic minority I guess I have every reason to complain, but somehow I can’t. I can actually understand the reasons why a […]