Today I attended a Write-In, as the event organizer called it. Held at the community centre in Crossfield, a town 15 minutes north of where I currently live, the Write-In was a day slated to do just that – WRITE. It started at 9 a.m. when we checked in and paid our $25 to cover the cost of the room rental and the catered breakfast and lunch. We even had name placards to put in front of us ...
Writing is never boring, that's my favourite thing about what I do; you never know where it'll take you. If someone had told me when I started down this path six years ago what I would have written about and the adventures I'd have been on, I would've claimed they were nuts.
Yet again I am off on another writing tangent, one completely new to me. A friend and occasional colleague of mine, M ...
Every job has its perks and one of the greatest of mine is the opportunity to do travel writing. In the past I've seen some amazing places, mainly in the Caribbean and Europe, on someone else's dime.
Last week I went on my first travel writing assignment to a location in Canada - Predator Ridge, British Columbia. It's only a 45 minute plane ride from my home near Calgary, Alberta, yet in ...
Last night I did my third speech at Toastmasters. As I am working to achieve my writing goals and dreams, I decided to talk about people who never gave up on their dreams, even when up against massive obstacles. I was surprised by how moved I was when I heard about the tough road Sylvester Stallone travelled to achieve his dream.
Although Stallone has been a movie star for over three dec ...
As a writer, I don’t always get a lot of feedback on my work. Occasionally an editor will tell me he or she thinks I have done a great job on something; those words, when they trickle in, get tacked up on the wall in my writing space.
Every so often I hear from a reader. The fifth article I had published was on elevator safety. A few months after it hit store shelves, I got a phone call ...
This is hard to admit – I am a hypocrite.
When it comes to people I care about, I always encourage them to step out of their comfort zone, to live a more meaningful life. And I try to practice what I preach. I take work trips to exciting places. I am expanding my vegetable repertoire. I’ve taken up yoga after merely thinking about doing it for a decade.
But when I received an invitat ...
I've been bit by the nostalgia bug recently. As I reminisce, I can't help but recall when I first started freelance writing. It has only been six years since I was first published but so much has changed. My first article was a travel piece on a trip I had taken to Saudi Arabia. The query letter was sent in via snail mail to the editor and was accepted via a 30 second phone call from the ...
Being able to say I'm writing a blog entry for my own website is very exciting for me!
I have been a freelance writer for six years now and have wanted to get a website for my work going since I published my first article in 2003. But having the technological capacity of a gnat made that a challenge until an article I wrote on slogans and taglines brought me into contact with Mike Blaney ( ...