In the summer of 2012, I attended Clarion West in Seattle where I had one of the single best experiences of my writerly life, and this year I’m going to participate in their Write-a-Thon program to raise money....
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Crowd-sourcing sites such as indiegogo and Kickstarter have become popular places for authors, editors, and publishers to go to help fund projects they wouldn’t otherwise be able to make. And with your help we can...
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Laura’s Foul-Mouthed Guide to Surviving Writers
By Laura Marshall Last summer Helen attended the Clarion West writer’s workshop. For her, this meant six glorious weeks of writing and critiquing; for me, this meant six glorious weeks free of writer-drama. So, to...
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Helen’s Foul-Mouthed Rules for Surviving Clarion West
By Helen Marshall Today is the first official day of summer, and right now a bunch of young writers are hauling their asses out to Seattle to begin a great adventure. I know. I did...
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By Laura Marshall and Helen Marshall New Year’s Eve has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still make your New Year’s resolution. Frequently, this is a time when our Facebook newsfeeds get cluttered up with new writing goals ranging from finishing off that novel you’ve done that first eight chapters on to...
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By Helen Marshall So this is in response to a tagging sort of roving blog book questionnaire (whatever it is that might be?) but good people are doing it (Carlie over here tagged me) and so I’m going to do it too! But…in the interests of fairness, I’ve just replaced the word “novel” with “book” throughout because...
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by Helen Marshall If you’re living and writing in Ontario, then you might have noticed the first drips of what will eventually be a flurry of Facebook statuses agonizing over grant applications. As a doctoral student, a writer and an editor for a mid-sized press, grants have become my friends. My best friends. The kind...
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New Year’s Resolution for Writers