An attempt to describe the journeys of my life, the ones I’ve escaped to help others. – The trailer park series is an attempt to touch the heart of what it means to be a woman hearing these words, and the journey out of them.
The Vancouver International Busker Fest
On Canada Day Weekend – June 29th to July 1st, Granville Street will be taken over by some of the world’s finest street entertainers. Comedians, acrobats, musicians and daredevils from all over the world will be flown in to entertain massive crowds on the hugely popular Canada Day weekend.
Deconstructing Fiction (For Writers and Readers): Excerpt Deconstructed (1)
This is the first in a series of articles in which author Steven Erikson deconstructs, paragraph by paragraph, the excerpt, posted here last week, from his most recent novel Forge of Darkness.
Filmmaking 101 Part 5 – Casting & Crew & Catering, Oh My!
I needed to find four actors for the photo shoot. As it was for flashbacks, they had to look like younger versions of my lead actors. They had to be union. They had to be available on April 10th. Sound impossible? Read on…
Trailer Park Poet – Part 2
Through my life as a person who lived in poverty, there were terms that frequented my life like, trash, useless and disposed of. The trailer park series is an attempt to touch the heart of what it means to be a woman hearing these words, and the journey out of them.
Top 10 Sentence Slip-Ups
K.M. Weiland discusses how authors should learn to spot the most prevalent sentence slips-ups and know when to eliminate them from their stories.
Deconstructing Fiction (for Writers and Readers): Excerpt from Forge of Darkness
The following is an excerpt from Steven Erikson’s most recent novel, Forge of Darkness. Over the next several weeks, Erikson will carefully deconstruct this excerpt for the purpose of providing readers and writers with a view of the manner in which the elements of fiction are incorporated into the writing process.
It’s Steamy on the Shampoo Aisle
Since my beauty regimen consists of Pert 2-in-1, I was confused at the grocery by an entire aisle of bottles promising to indulge my senses with “silky shafts up to 300 percent thicker.” Ok, that’s a little sluttier than Kim Kardasian on a Cosmo cover with a painted-on bikini.
Sisters
John was fortunate. He had two beautiful sisters. They are no longer with him but he will always love them. This is his note to them and to himself which he offers as a sharing.
Deconstructing Fiction (for Writers and Readers): Introduction
Steven Erikson, author of best-selling fantasy novels, provides in this introduction the rationale for the careful deconstruction, to be presented here over the following weeks, of an excerpt from his most recent work.
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