by Yolande House | Jan 8, 2010 | Writing
2009 marked my first year writing more regularly. I had always done well with the deadline provided by National Novel Writing Month and National Novel Editing Month, but I had trouble outside of these and the other mini-challenges I set for myself. So in 2009 I signed...
by Yolande House | Nov 23, 2009 | Writing
I’m thick into National Novel Writing Month, but I saw this book at a friend’s house, scanned the introduction, and have to record this great description of “story” versus “experience”: There is a difference [between story and...
by Yolande House | Oct 5, 2009 | Self-Care, Writing
I’ve had two health-care professionals now tell me that I need to be more careful when researching for my childhood memoir. I see their point – I am visibly stressed, as it has been very difficult to be reminded of uncomfortable things that had faded from...
by Yolande House | Sep 28, 2009 | Writing
Last fall I attended a non-fiction workshop put on by the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. It was a talk by Jacques Poitras, CBC journalist and the author of Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy and The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma. Poitras...
by Yolande House | Sep 27, 2009 | Book Review, Writing
In my search for books on how to write a non-fiction book proposal, I came across 6 that I found helpful: How To Write a Book Proposal, by Michael Larsen Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody can Write, by Elizabeth Lyon The Fast Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction...
by Yolande House | Aug 31, 2009 | Writing
This explains so much! [T]rauma-based accounts are often private salvage operations. Rather than assuming continuity, they must, at the deepest level, reflect and somehow compensate for its destruction. For a trauma is a rupture, a break … whether brought on by a...
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