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The lead up to Novel November: writing, revising, & revisiting
Hello dear readers, I write to you from my office, the sun shining through the windows. Autumn has vanished as soon as it appeared, and we’ve been left with true Augtober weather¹. I’m wearing shorts and sunscreen! In October! No thanks. I wanted to share with you some exciting writing news: as of last Friday,…
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I’ve been keeping a writing-related secret
Hello dear readers, I write to you today from our kitchen counter, my new ceramic pumpkin mug beside me, full of chai tea. Today is one of those days that I need a change of scenery to get the words moving, and so I’ve found myself here, on the newly-painted wood stools. Over the past…
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One year of blogging like it’s 2008, and other milestones
Hello dear readers, I write to you from my office, drinking coffee from my newly-unearthed autumn mugs. It’s only September 1st, but the weather tells me summer is coming to a close, and so the themed decor has already found its way out of hiding. Today marks exactly one year of blogging like it’s 2008…
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Secret writing things and a new poetry collection on the horizon
Hello dear readers, I write to you from our living room sofa, rain thundering down outside. Despite it being the last week of July, the weather seems to think it’s October, the (extreme!) heat of the past week all but forgotten. You know by now that this is not a problem for me, whose favourite…
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Let’s just call this foreshadowing: a writing update
Hello dear readers, I write to you from my office, which is far too hot despite the window being wide open. Unfortunately I am not helping matters, drinking my second cup of coffee for the day, but it’s a second-coffee kind of afternoon. I have sat down to write this blog post multiple times, and…
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Two novels and a poetry book: a haphazard writing update
Hello dear readers, I write to you from my kitchen desk after a long day in the garden. Today I replanted sunflowers for the third time¹, added some new flower seeds to the tulip bed, and helped my mom spread wildflower seeds for my aunt’s new front yard. But I’m not here to talk to…
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My heart lies with horror: a writing update
Hello dear readers, As seems to be the pattern, I write to you from my kitchen desk on a blustery Sunday morning. The skies are grey and flat, and wind blows through the cedars and the pines in the neighbours’ yards beyond. I am incredibly tired, mainly because I drank coffee at six yesterday afternoon,…
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Another draft done, fueled by coffee and my inability to chill
Hello dear readers, I write this to you from my office desk, where I have been holed up for the past few days working on something I hadn’t planned to be working on, but which allows me to share an exciting update: I’ve just finished the second draft of my mystery novel. But Catherine, you…
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Finishing the first draft on a snow-filled evening
Hello dear readers, I’m writing this to you from my kitchen desk, where I’m watching the first snowfall of the season, the flakes substantial and fast to make up for the fact it held off for so long. I have some news: I’ve finished the first draft of my novel. The last words were typed…
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January is the month of hitting word counts (a writing update)
Hello dear readers, It’s been a while since I’ve checked in with you on anything writing-related, and so I wanted to give you a little update of where I’m at. I decided back in December that, throughout January, I’d focus on getting the first draft of my current novel finished. So far, this is going…
