• on blogger’s block

    When you started your blog, it didn’t seem too difficult a task to post about one thing just once a week. It didn’t have to be anything intellectual, just something you were passionate, excited, or curious about. A book. A movie. A childhood memory. A recent win. Anything. You did…


  • on a writer’s toolbox

    It was only way after I finished my first draft of a short story collection that I truly understood that ‘help’ and ‘resources’ were not a bad thing. I’d always thought of writing as a very solitary, isolated experience. That you came up with an idea, wrote it down as…


  • on unreliable narrators

    One of my favourite tropes in media is that of the unreliable narrator. Typically, a tacit agreement is made with any piece of media before you enter it—that the narrator is telling you the truth of what is happening or has happened. This implicit trust in the narrator is shaken…


  • on first drafts

    Almost every famous author has something to say about the importance and the muckiness of first drafts. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”1 “Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”2 “… you have to give yourself permission to…