A Free Writing Workshop in Kitchener You dream of becoming a writer someday. Or maybe you have your family’s history in a box and want to write a book for your children. Or you often say this: “I’ve always wanted…
Writing Workshop Kitchener: Turning Memories into Stories
A Free Writing Workshop in Kitchener You dream of becoming a writer someday. Or maybe you have your family’s history in a box and want to write a book for your children. Or you often say this: “I’ve always wanted…
Knox Waterloo Christmas Bazaar
The Knox Waterloo Christmas Bazaar is a Christmas market at perhaps one of the best-known churches in Waterloo. I’ve never been inside this church, just marvelled at it from the outside. Heather Wright and I will again be selling our…
Writing Novels about Dance
Canadian writer Lori Wolf-Heffner talks about the problems she had writing novels about dance.
6 Tips to Help You Get Some Creative Time With Kids in the House
If you’re a parent, chances are you have to watch your kids while trying to schedule in some creative time for yourself. Sure, you can get down and dirty with them, get yourself covered in paint or mud, and have…
Storytelling or Missionizing?
I idolized Jean Little in my pre-teens and early teens. Many of her books helped me understand other children. I do believe they made me a nicer person. One novel, Different Dragons, even helped me get over my fear of dogs…
What Do You Believe About Yourself? It May Affect Your Creativity
I did a few comedy improv workshops once for troubled teens in a local high school. Most of the scenes were about sex, so I urged the students to try something else. A young man spoke up. “You know we’re…