Simon Rose takes over with Part Four. If you’ve missed his previous installments please visit: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 If you don’t feel as if you can create your own story from scratch, why not use someone else’s? This is not an endorsement of plagiarism, but rather a suggestion to rewrite the ending […]
Review of The Vision by Jason Lawson
Emerging Canadian author Jason Lawson needs to be recognized in a big way. He gave me a copy of his book for my pleasure and I’m so thankful he did as I was hesitant with the idea of buying it. The idea of a journey back in time to an Indian village wasn’t a topic […]
A Blog Award of Sorts!
Update 03-06-22: I don’t usually revisit my blog posts or edit them afterwards, but this one was brought to my attention in the most unusual, and serendipitous way. Amongst an abundance of spam emails laid this one, the subject line of “quick question”, not even capitalized. It seemed a typical spam start but something nagged […]
Starting Out as a Writer – Part Three by Simon Rose
Welcome back to the third installment of Starting Our as a Writer by Canadian author Simon Rose. Enjoy: A great way to get started is to consider an overheard conversation and where it might lead. How about “I’ll never forgive him for as long as I live”, or “I didn’t mean to set the laboratory […]
Something I Just Don’t Get
Many great things are happening to promote a step in the right direction for humanity but they are followed in close succession by something that contradicts how great the event is. I won’t divulge any even in particular but there are lots I’ve seen doing this same thing. An event meant to get people off […]
Part 2 of Starting Out as a Writer by Simon Rose
Even if you’re really determined to work on your writing and have set time aside for it, there will be days when nothing seems to work to get you started. An interesting exercise to get a story moving is to use a collection of random objects drawn from a bag. The idea is then to […]
Love At First Sight
A popular topic of debate is the existence of love at first sight. Romantics yearn for it, a tale of two strangers passing each other in a fluke situation forever connected by a bond that will last forever, no matter what life brings them. Skeptics are less to commit to such a fairy tale and […]
Starting Out as a Writer with Simon Rose- Part One
We’re celebrating Thanksgiving today in Canada so I want to start by expressing my gratitude for authors and alike. Without the ability to read we’d lose a lot of our freedom of expression and imagination so it’s important to take just a moment to thank our teachers, too. Now part one of Simon Rose’s take […]
I apologize for my absense
It seems when life gets hectic my writing, my passion is the first thing I sacrifice. It’s something I always regret but never seem to learn from, until now. With a recent move among other major changes, time has been spent on learning, playing and cleaning. All great things and each has aspects of me […]