Yearly Archives: 2015

Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 25 7 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on June 23, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 28, 2015)

1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]

Vineyard growing in the Canadian wine region of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia

Start With The Landscape

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged brainstorming landscape location setting on June 19, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 6, 2015)

Let’s look at how a landscape can provide a starting point for a story or poem. Think about a landscape you know well. Note that I said “landscape”, […]

Juan Felipe Herrera on writing interlingual stories

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games and tagged translation on June 10, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 10, 2015)

Juan Felipe Herrera, who was just named the first Mexican-American U.S. poet laureate, shares his technique for writing interlingual stories: Your picture books are bilingual in […]

Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 23 9 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on June 9, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 23, 2015)

1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]

Don’t do writer favors that tick you off 10 comments

This entry was posted in Writing on June 4, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 4, 2015)

Excellent advice on doing favors for fellow writers from Robin Black: There are only so many manuscripts you can read for free before you begin to resent […]

a calligraphy pen resting on a marked up manuscript page

Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 22 7 comments

This entry was posted in Weekly Check In on June 1, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on June 9, 2015)

1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]

Start With A Place Name

This entry was posted in Prompts & Writing Games on May 29, 2015 by Shaula Evans

The Okanagan Valley where I grew up is blessed with an array of colorful place names, including names derived from the Salish language of the original […]