by Lauren Carter | May 20, 2020 | Manitoba, News, Novel, Ontario, Prizes, Publications, Readings, Writers, Writing Life
As a young woman living in Peterborough, Ontario, I never would have thought that one day I’d move to Margaret Laurence’s home province of Manitoba. If a fortune teller had also muttered in my ear that I’d win a prize named after her for my second novel, I might have...
by Lauren Carter | Apr 30, 2020 | Creativity, Family, Poetry, Publications, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been writing a lot lately – that’s what happens when you commit to pick up the pen pretty much every day, for at least twenty minutes. Some fiction (one of the prompts that I gave in one of my live-streaming sessions through my Write Ramble...
by Lauren Carter | Apr 2, 2020 | Creativity, Events, Poetry, Readings, Writers, Writing Life
This slow morning, the cat gets us up with his insistent meowing to be fed. J. and I take care of the animals, then recline on the couch for coffee. We watch the snow slanting out of a purple-grey sky and talk about narrow-boating in Yorkshire canals (reminiscing over...
by Lauren Carter | Mar 26, 2020 | Creativity, Process, Writers, Writing Life
One of my mantras when I’m working on long-term writing projects is a single word. Patience. I mutter this to myself often as I’m writing through a first draft and, once that’s completed, when I have to type up whole novels written in longhand in...
by Lauren Carter | Mar 19, 2020 | Creativity Coaching, Health, Internet, Process, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
So… how are you? I mean it. How are you? In my quiet household, where the animals don’t seem to be aware that anything’s wrong (except for Mowat’s amped-up need for evening cuddles as I watch The National), we are muddling along. Talking every...
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