The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: writing

  • Clearing Space for Kindness

    “Kindness” is not a concept that I always associate with higher education, or with education in general. Learning is difficult, but that inherent challenge has been compounded by the human and thus imperfect systems that we’ve built: Grading. Ranking. Prize Days and Spelling Bees. Attendance requirements that punish the chronically ill. The endless, disheartening casualization…

  • Visions and Revisions, Or How to Lose 26K Words in Two Weeks While Dreaming of Icebergs

    Photo credit: Dylan Kereluk from White Rock, Canada; used under a CC license. Description: Newfoundland coast and iceberg. I have a word length problem. By May 1, I need to chop a minimum of 26, 232 words from the second draft of my first mystery novel. On that May Day, a very good developmental editor…

  • Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!

    Photo credit: Paige K Parsons for Rabbit.org Foundation Welcome to April! Easter is coming, and the etched coloured glass eggs I ordered as my treat arrived yesterday; now I’m trying to figure out how to construct an indoor Easter bush that does not entice the cat into potential disaster. First, though, we have to get…