Tonight, the film “A Christmas Carol” will be viewed by millions (including me! )as part of their holiday traditions.
But have you actually read the book the film is based on? 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.
Could I Put That In A Story….?
This summer was a hard one.
Someone greatly, greatly loved by me recently succumbed to that bloody awful disease, cancer. Read more
Writers never take a holiday
Canada Day.
The national holiday, so of course I had work to do… Read more
Imperfect Perfection
I recently finished a great book featuring a character I just love. The writer of this character has made a lot of money from a successful series of books centred around this one persona. After discussing it with some friends, I realized one of the things that made the story so readable was that the protagonist was believable. And what made her believable?
She wasn’t perfect. Read more
Misplacing My Mojo
It began innocuously enough.
The setting aside of writing time for all the demands of the season.I was not to know the full repercussions of this decision until weeks later.
Way back in December, I found myself immersed in the Read more
A dream come true.
From the first word we ever typed, penned, or scribbled, all of us who have written anything have always dreamed of one day seeing our work published.
And that’s what happened this week for The Ascribe Writers: the book launch of the first anthology of our short stories, Beneath the Surface: A Collection of Grey-Bruce Stories. Read more
Why My Blog Is A Day Late
Writers in Canada in the 21st century have it easy.
We have lap tops, desk tops, tablets, cell phones. We have virtually infinite resources available in local libraries and on-line to check facts, tweak details, inspire scenarios for any time and setting.
I think we take these things for granted. I know I did.
But not any more. Read more
Getting Past Your Own Preconceptions
So I’m working with some of my writing colleagues on an anthology of short stories.
We agreed on a common theme to give the stories context and cohesion, and the ideas were brilliant and coming fast and furious. As anyone who belongs to one knows, the best thing about being in a writers’ group is it inspires you to hunker down to your own work. As soon as they come up with ideas out loud, you find yourself spurred to create and contribute your own. So many ideas – it whets the appetite of the imagination.
I made an outline; I made notes. Copious notes. Dialogues. I could see the characters in my head, I could imagine where they lived, the routes they moved along on. The words came, the pages filled up. Read more