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Writing yogis. Yogi writers.

By ad | Published: September 12, 2010
With another session of our yoga and writing workshop coming up this September 26, I’ve been answering a lot of questions about the connection between these two activities. “Um, how can you do yoga and write at the same time?” The conversation that follows usually touches on liberating expression by first silencing the ego and [...]
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Show, don’t tell

By ad | Published: July 25, 2010
I was recently sent on assignment to cover the inaugural Summer Literary Seminars – specifically, to sit in on a workshop being led by Croatian-American author Josip Novakovich. Being in the workshop was reminiscent of my days in the Concordia Creative Writing program. Sitting around a long table. Nervous fiddling with pens. Coffee in cardboard cups. The [...]
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Writing your own story

By ad | Published: May 25, 2010
If you want to write, you have to believe that your own personal story is worth telling. It only just occurred to me that this is true. I’ve never really drawn stories from my own life experience – mainly because my life has never seemed to be extraordinary enough for fiction. And up until now, [...]
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