This thread couldn't have come at a better time for me! Thank you so much for your ideas and encouragement.
Marc
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- August 13th, 2010, 9:48 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How do you get yourself to write?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 18963
- August 12th, 2010, 1:14 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Dead And Alive: Who Are Your Favorite Writers?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7691
Re: Dead And Alive: Who Are Your Favorite Writers?
Hmmm...interesting question...
I think I would have to say Timothy Findley for my favorite author who has passed on and Margaret Atwood for favorite author still living and writing. Yes, as you can tell, I am huge CanLit fan.
Marc
I think I would have to say Timothy Findley for my favorite author who has passed on and Margaret Atwood for favorite author still living and writing. Yes, as you can tell, I am huge CanLit fan.
Marc
Re: Canucks
Hello there, Good to see another Canadian here. I am currently living in Edmonton but am originally from Newfoundland. I also spent about 6 years living 'overseas' before moving to Edmonton four years ago (almost four years in Cuba and the rest of the time divided between Bolivia, Guatemala and Cost...
- July 14th, 2010, 10:58 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: I am having a scene block. Help
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1649
I am having a scene block. Help
Hello folks, I am currently three quarters of the way through the first draft of a nonfiction/memoir. It is the story of an Iranian refugee who was forced to flee his country after starting the country's first underground gay and lesbian organization. I started the book with a catching (I believe) s...
- May 22nd, 2010, 12:12 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Two Competing Ideas...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4487
Re: Two Competing Ideas...
I have experienced the same problem. I hate sounding mystical and all pop psychology-y about the writing process, but if your situation is anything like mine, the problem might be that neither of your fiction ideas have finished developing in your deeper levels of consciousness. (gag) Thank you eve...
- May 19th, 2010, 1:05 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Two Competing Ideas...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4487
Two Competing Ideas...
Hello everyone, For the last couple of months I have been working on two very different ideas for a novel. I have written or sketched out enough of both to know that each one could possibly work as a longer piece of fiction. I feel passionate and excited about both of these ideas. But here's the thi...
- May 12th, 2010, 11:24 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 310228
Re: What are you reading now?
I am on a bit of a Margaret Atwood kick right now. I have finished The Year of the Flood and The Robber Bride. I am now about to start Cats Eye.
I am loving her writing...I can't believe I avoided her (for reasons unknown) for so long.
Marc
I am loving her writing...I can't believe I avoided her (for reasons unknown) for so long.
Marc
- May 7th, 2010, 3:02 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Bestsellers that don't live up to the hype
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11528
Re: Bestsellers that don't live up to the hype
I'm currently slogging through "The Cellist of Sarajevo" -- don't know about down in the US, but it was a big seller up here in Canada. I find it... a sluggish chore of a read. Craig, I absolutely loved the Cellist of Sarajevo but I read while in Sarajevo during a backpacking trip through...
- May 4th, 2010, 11:10 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Funniest book you've read?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 18445
Re: Funniest book you've read?
Definitely Come Thou, Tortoise by Jessica Grant.
- March 22nd, 2010, 11:13 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Multiple POVs in first person. help please.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4908
Re: Multiple POVs in first person. help please.
Check out Fall by Colin McAdam. Great book and told from multiple first person POVs. It was shortlisted for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize this year which is Canada's most prestigious literary prize.
Marc
Marc
- March 6th, 2010, 4:13 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Recommendations - Books on Grammar
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3594
Re: Recommendations - Books on Grammar
Thanks everyone!
I just ordered my anniversary edition of Strunk and White online. I am looking forward to its arrival.
Happy writing (and perfect grammar),
Marc
I just ordered my anniversary edition of Strunk and White online. I am looking forward to its arrival.
Happy writing (and perfect grammar),
Marc
- March 2nd, 2010, 11:21 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Recommendations - Books on Grammar
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3594
Recommendations - Books on Grammar
Hello all,
Just wondering if someone can recommend a good book or two on grammar, punctuation, etc?
I am particularly interested in concise, easy to understand, practical books...
Any ideas?
Marc
Just wondering if someone can recommend a good book or two on grammar, punctuation, etc?
I am particularly interested in concise, easy to understand, practical books...
Any ideas?
Marc
- January 31st, 2010, 11:37 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Attachment to your first draft?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4547
Re: Attachment to your first draft?
Thank you so much everyone!
There is some great advice here. Now I just need to take it and use it as I continue to revise.
Marc
There is some great advice here. Now I just need to take it and use it as I continue to revise.
Marc
- January 30th, 2010, 11:11 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Attachment to your first draft?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4547
Attachment to your first draft?
Hello there, I am wondering if anyone has the same challenge that I am facing right now... I have embraced the idea of writing a 'shitty first draft'...just getting something down on paper (or on the screen) so that the book moves along and I can come back to revise. I am in the revision stage now a...
- January 16th, 2010, 12:34 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: What are you writing now?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 26802
Re: What are you writing now?
Hello there, I am currently working on a non-fiction/memoir of an Iranian refugee currently living in Canada. He is 29 and had to flee his country after starting the first underground gay and lesbian human rights organization there. Punishment in Iran for being gay ranges from torture to execution. ...