Read this on galpod.com. When the world around us changes overnight, what do we do? I've been observing people online. Writers, this a perfect time now to do your research online because everyone is now online. Just saying. There are several strategies we can use to deal with a sudden change. We can "just keep swimming". It works for some people, but I'm a firm believer in dealing with stuff, even the difficult ones. We can "find the silver lining", which is, for me, a variat

Read this on galpod.com. About a third into this month, I had a breakthrough with the book I'm working on. It's a good thing, of course. But because I needed to do a lot more research, it meant a lot less writing. I hit about 40% of my word goals for the book. But I'm reading an excellent book that looks like it was written especially for me. It's telling me exactly what I wanted to know, plus there are books and blogs listed that I'm going to check once I'm done with the boo

Read this on galpod.com. When we were 25 years old, my partner and I got married. Then we packed up and moved across the ocean. The company he was working for got acquired, and the new company wanted him to come work in their Ottawa office. So we mailed all of our books to the new office, got a big kennel for our 40-kilograms dog, and got on a plane. When I started writing fiction, I read the fantastic book Story Genius. In it, author Lisa Cron argues that the one thing peopl