by Yolande House | Apr 14, 2010 | Writing
1. Buy a cake for your book launch. Preferably a big one. 2. Write “BOOK LAUNCH” in gigantic letters on the cake. 3. Walk around the grocery store with this in your cart. That’s it! I did this in the fall when my...
by Yolande House | Mar 16, 2010 | Book Review
Last night I finished reading John’s Scalzi’s You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing. The book is a compilation of blog posts from The Whatever, Scalzi’s blog, from about 2001-2005. I had heard...
by Yolande House | Jan 8, 2010 | Writing
2009 marked my first year writing more regularly. I had always done well with the deadline provided by National Novel Writing Month and National Novel Editing Month, but I had trouble outside of these and the other mini-challenges I set for myself. So in 2009 I signed...
by Yolande House | Nov 23, 2009 | Writing
I’m thick into National Novel Writing Month, but I saw this book at a friend’s house, scanned the introduction, and have to record this great description of “story” versus “experience”: There is a difference [between story and...
by Yolande House | Oct 5, 2009 | Self-Care, Writing
I’ve had two health-care professionals now tell me that I need to be more careful when researching for my childhood memoir. I see their point – I am visibly stressed, as it has been very difficult to be reminded of uncomfortable things that had faded from...
by Yolande House | Sep 29, 2009 | Book Review
It took me a few false starts to write a review of Fat Girl: A True Story. I guess that in and of itself is a statement: this book is so thought-provoking it took me weeks to digest its contents, while at the same time being so scattered and narratively unfocused as...
by Yolande House | Sep 28, 2009 | Writing
Last fall I attended a non-fiction workshop put on by the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. It was a talk by Jacques Poitras, CBC journalist and the author of Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy and The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma. Poitras...
by Yolande House | Sep 27, 2009 | Book Review, Writing
In my search for books on how to write a non-fiction book proposal, I came across 6 that I found helpful: How To Write a Book Proposal, by Michael Larsen Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody can Write, by Elizabeth Lyon The Fast Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction...
by Yolande House | Sep 27, 2009 | Book Review
It’s taken me a while to write a review of this book – I think I love it so much my review can’t possibly live up to the book. For a description of the book’s plot and relevant reader comments, check out amazon.co.uk (not .com). Essentially,...
by Yolande House | Aug 31, 2009 | Writing
This explains so much! [T]rauma-based accounts are often private salvage operations. Rather than assuming continuity, they must, at the deepest level, reflect and somehow compensate for its destruction. For a trauma is a rupture, a break … whether brought on by a...
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