by Lauren Carter | Apr 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com J. read through the latest draft of my new novel last week. He gave me a lot of notes. My favourite scrawl in the margin: “next couple of chapters don’t feel right – WTF feeling – not in a good way.” This note is my favourite because...
by Lauren Carter | Mar 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Early this week, I finished the latest draft of a new novel. When I reached the end, after days and days (and days) of slow, plodding progress, I felt surprised. It was like thinking you’ve got a couple of hours left to drive then spotting the sign marking the...
by Lauren Carter | Mar 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Yesterday morning, my cat climbed a tree. He’s an indoor cat who has regular guided outdoor adventures, and he’s developed a deep love of tree-climbing. This tree, however, was one he had never climbed before so, of course, he got stuck. There I stood, in my pyjama...
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...
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