Category Archives: True Confessions
Circ School Diary
If I had to use one word to describe Magazines Canada Circulation School at Niagara-On-The-Lake, it would be epic.
Friday
My train arrives in Niagara Falls around 10:30am. I take a walk around the station in the hopes of finding a way to kill time, but there’s something post-apocalyptic about the area. I settle in [...]
Literary Resolutions
I’m a pretty practical person by nature—I like to consider myself a realist, but pessimist is probably more accurate. However, there’s something about New Year’s, in particular the idea of a fresh start, that just sweeps me off my feet. I typically spend all of New Year’s Day indulging (wallowing, some might say) in truly [...]
Hard Work Does Not = Good Writing?
“It takes just as much work to write a bad book as it does a good one.” Gary Draper said this in passing during a lecture on, I think, Wacousta or The Temptations of Big Bear…I’ve forgotten the details of that lecture as it’s several years ago now that I took his Early Canadian Literature [...]
Bookstore Math
I’ve spent a lot of time in bookstores. I usually arrive with a purpose—to buy a particular title—and search it out immediately but then I end up spending, at minimum, half an hour browsing the stacks, collecting an armful of books as I drift from section to section. When I reach that uneasy point at [...]
Quitting Books
Yesterday after work, Melissa lent me Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King to help me with my Great Canadian Book Challenge. She’d left it in the backseat of her very well-travelled car and because we’d had a late meeting, it was both dark and raining when we walked out to the parking lot, conditions [...]
Literary Style – part deux
Melissa’s post on our fabulous TNQ t-shirts got me thinking about the other pieces of literary style I’m currently coveting. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that this is not a purely disinterested post; my birthday is coming up in a few months, so I hope my husband is paying particular attention…) [...]
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