Influence has an important role in your writing. As you understand and work with different styles and influences, you’ll learn how to find your own voice. This is part eight of a 10-part series on style and voice. Writers in the Story Course and the Story Intensive can determine their writing style by taking the… [Read More]
Restore your spirit.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. — T.S. Eliot As I write this, a banditry of chickadees (that’s their plural noun!) is ravaging our bird feeder. They fly back to their little hollows in the trees, storing piles of… [Read More]
How to make the next book you read a bespoke writing class.
Once in a while we are lucky enough to read something that feels astonishing, brilliant and personally meaningful. When we finish reading, we have to take a minute to integrate the experience. We savour the feeling the writing has left in our body, and try to hold on to the insights it gave us. We… [Read More]
Introducing the 2020 Little Bird Contest winners.
The winner of the 10th anniversary Little Bird Contest is: Jennifer Falkner from Ottawa, Ontario, for “Words Fail” The runners-up are: Nancy Sulaiman from LaSalle, Ontario, “What Fits in the Palm of Your Hand” Damien Pitter from Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, for “Little Birds” Bestselling author Sheena Kamal picked three stories out of the… [Read More]
Are you a Visceralist?
Influence has an important role in your writing. As you understand and work with different styles and influences, you’ll learn how to find your own voice. This is part eight of a 10-part series on style and voice. Writers in the Story Course and the Story Intensive can determine their writing style by taking the… [Read More]
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