Let Nothing Stop Your Writing
BY CHARLIE CY ‘The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to […]
It’ll Never Be Perfect
BY PATRICIA A. NUGENT As I grappled with my father’s volatile behaviour, hoping he’d change as a result of his infirmity, his hospice worker consoled me by saying, ‘You die the way you live.’ I’d expand on that maxim today to say, ‘You write the way you live.’ In my case, that ‘way’ was being […]
The Old Stump Story
BY DAKOTA LOVE My writing journey began when I was a wee girl of four years old. I wrote a story about a Native American girl named White Lily as she and her family prepared to travel to their winter lodging grounds. From that one-page short story, I continued writing as I grew older, filling […]