You can read all the writing advice in the world, but in the end, it all comes down to how YOU approach the page or the screen. To help illustrate how we’re all just a little bit different, I’m taking a standard list of questions about writing and posing it to dozens of different writers. As you scroll though their answers, I think you’ll see we’re all as individual as fingerprints or snowflakes. And if you’re a writer who’d like to participate in this questionnaire, please email me.
Reading time: About 2 minutes When he writes poetry, Misha Solomon says he works in a linear way. “I almost always start with a title and that title rarely changes…” Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020) and Full Sentences (Turret House […]
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Sarah Boon warns that writing a thousand words a day is no guarantee of a book by year’s end… Sarah Boon is a freelance writer and editor. She has published essays, book reviews, author interviews, and articles in a range of magazines and journals, including
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jasmine Ruff says that writers shouldn’t fixate on form. She says she’s seen mediocre fiction writers become brilliant poets and vice versa…. Jasmine Ruff is a queer writer living in Vancouver — the ancestral and unceded lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Her
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Reading time: About two minutes Sue Dvorak says that talking about writing is usually a mistake. Instead, it just burns up the drive you’ve had to do it… Sue Dvorak is a physiotherapist and a mother of six now-adult children. She dabbled in writing on and off over the years,
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Sarah WaterRaven says writing is no different from any other profession…. Sarah WaterRaven is an urban fantasy author who says she kills people and then distracts readers with pixies. She is the author of Detective Docherty and I Fell in Love with a Necromancer. I
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Jen Frankel says the Oscar Wilde quote, “It’s better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating,” helps keep her grounded as a writer. Jen Frankel is the author of the vegan zombie romantic satire Undead Redhead and the Blood & Magic series. Her
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Reading time: About 3 minutes Cid V Brunet says it’s always important to have time away from my desk to let the writing simmer on the back-burner…. Cid V Brunet published their debut memoir, This Is My Real Name, with Arsenal Pulp Press in 2021. With recent poetry publications in
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Charmaine Li says she likes to tell herself that she needs to write for only five minutes. Often, she ends up writing for longer than that, but the idea that she MUST write for only five minutes helps to persuade her to sit down… Charmaine
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Madelaine Caritas Longman estimates that estimate that for most people, writing is at least 80% rewriting… Madelaine Caritas Longman is the author of the poetry collection The Danger Model (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), which received the Quebec Writers Federation Concordia University First Book Prize. Her
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Reading time: About 2 minutes Write Kit Daven keeps a mantra posted near her computer. It reads: By Any Means Necessary…. Kit Daven’s heart beats for the eerie and the extraordinary in her tales. Her sci fantasy series, A Xiinisi Trilogy (The Forgotten Gemstone, The Other Castle, and The Starry
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