Newsletter Archives

2005

• January - Creative Chaos
• February - All I Needed to Know About Writing Romance I Learned From Walking the Camino
• March - Writer's Block—Myth or Truth?
• March - What are You Doing to Defeat Your Self-Defeating Behaviours?
• March - Top 10 Reasons Romance Novels Are So Addictive
• April - Using Objects to Build Character and Evoke Emotion
• April - One Pedal Stroke at a a Time
• May - Are You a Fog-Walker?
• June - Calling All Sceners! Plotters, Pantsers Step Aside
• July - Glad You Asked (regular column)
• July - Yoga: Freeing The Creative Soul
• September - Glad You Asked (regular column)
• October - Pitch Perfect
• November - Plotting

2004

• February - New Year's Resolutions
• March - Salvaging the Rejection-Scarred Muse
• April - Dealing with Disaster: Crime & Science 2004
• May - Grammar Girl
• June - 20 Things Only a Fellow Writer Could Possibly Understand
• August-September - Grammar Girl
• October - Opening Hooks

2003

• January - Pitches and Query Letters
• Februrary - Everything I Know About Writing Romance I Learned from Newspapers
• March - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Brunch
• April - Secrets of Goal Setting
• May - Top 10 Pitfalls of Honouring My Muse
• June - Ten Frequently Heard Questions/Comments Writers Receive on Writing Along with the Responses Both Useful and Inadvisable
• September - Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Top 10 Smart-Alecky Answers to the Eternal Question That Plagues Writers Everywhere
• October - My Glamorous Transformation to a Pubbed Author
• November - Taxes and the Canadian Writer
• December - What's Your Motto?

2002

• January - Top 10 Things People Say When They Find Out I'm a Writer
• March - Here Come the Doubt Police
• May - So You Think You Want To Write
• June - Reflections on Deb Dixon Workshop
• September - Kiss of Death Pre-Conference Tour
• October - Finding Time to Write
• December - Introducing Chick Lit

2001

• February - Adjust Your Thinking—Characters, Not Caricatures
• March - Creating Characters with a Physical Disability
• April - Getting Your Story to Bubble and Work
• May - What I Learned at the Victoria Conference
• June - 20 Steps to a Better Manuscript
• August/September - The Perfect Conference Fashion Accessory
• October - Notes From a National Novice
• November - Rebuilding: Remembering the Dream
• December - Top 10 Things I'd Like to See in My Stocking This Christmas

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