Last week I had the privilege of attending the book launch of an anthology I was honoured to be invited to contribute to. Read more
Author: Andrée Levie-Warrilow
A Montréal expat, Andrée Levie-Warrilow has lived in Owen Sound since 1984. She is a perennial reader, blogger, volunteer, gardener, working artist, Master Gardener, and member of Ascribe Writers. Andrée loves books, history, Star Trek, gardening, soccer, mystery novels, science, art, music, rocks, and wolves - most of which somehow wend their way into her stories.
Her writing has also appeared in anthologies of short stories, poetry and non-fiction: poetry in Things That Used to Matter (2022), and an essay in Aging in Place (2024).
She is presently working on a collection of short stories.
Ch-Ch-Changes
Ah, summertime, and the livin’ is…hot!
I’m sitting wedged beside the oscillating fan, laptop on my knee, wondering why I said “no thank you” twice to offers of free ACs…something in my head back then about saving the planet…oh well. Read more
To Write Is To Dream
To write, or not to write, that is the question. Read more
Piecemeal
ONE OF THE BIG THINGS about creative writing is how much a part of one’s self shows up in the work, even when the theme is something completely fabricated.
I liken writing to a piecework quilt: beyond the grammar and words one selects to stitch everything together (although that can colour everything), in most of what we write, what we design – plot, theme, characters – everything originates as a pastiche of everything we have lived and learned. Just like those quilts that use symbols of colour and form to send a message, our minds gather up all those elements that we have to hand from our experiences and knowledge, even when we’re creating something uniquely from our imagination. Read more
In Praise of Books
As I write this, World Book Day was just celebrated three days ago. What a great idea!
I love books. I love reading books with facts and I love books with stories. We talk here mostly of stories we as writers create. But do you ever wonder why stories are so important to us? Read more
2024, Self Care, Fact and fiction, and Pearls.
“Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now, looking back on it, I can hardly distinguish one from the other.” – Somerset Maugham
Perception Is Everything
This week my blog takes me to looking at the shape our world is in.
Perception is everything.
Wars, poverty, pollution, stress, disinformation, mental illness, greed, corruption, isolation, bigotry, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, the 6th wave of mass extinctions.
It’s a mess. Read more
Full of Sound and Fury
What is a blog?
“Blog” : a Weblog, an online journal where an individual or group presents a record of thought, activities, or beliefs.
Here are mine on what has been one hell of a week.
Well, it must be said this past week I have not had to struggle with Blank Page What Do I Write? Syndrome.
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