Under one of the themes in my themes book, I’d written “taupe.” It took me a second to recall how that could be a theme. As I write about in my sequel book that I am still editing, I noted the difference in how we Canadians colour our world compared to Latino cultures. In all […]
One of the many exercises I did while writing my book was to mind map all the different themes I could discover. One that I encountered so many times was hospitality. Here is what I wrote: Hospitality happens despite the dangers embedded in any encounter with a stranger. It gives you the honour of being
I’ve been going back over some of the books I have in my ‘how to write a book’ library and came across another turned down page in Memoir as Medicine by Nancy Slonim Aronie. She taught me how not to ask, “Who would want to read MY memoir?” or “Who would find this interesting?”, but
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