by Laurie Ness Gordon | Aug 28, 2015 | The Medal, Writing |
My new bookmark has had a lot of use. Thanks, Mireille Chiasson. The little turtle reminds me of the ones who plod up from the water to lay their eggs in our lawn each June. And the fact that it’s wood reminds me of my novel, The Medal. Seventeen-year-old Kilian...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jun 20, 2015 | Writing |
Djembes, Ashikos, doumbeks, congas, tars, shekeres… last weekend had them all and more at the drum camp held at Camp Oconto on Eagle Lake, north of Kingston, Ontario. From Thursday afternoon to Sunday’s closing circle, the days and nights were full of...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jun 1, 2015 | The Medal, Writing |
Orphan Train, a best-selling novel by Christina Baker Kline, features an unlikely friendship between a girl in foster care and 90+ year old Vivian. A community service position helping the widow clean out her attic is meant to keep Molly out of juvie for the theft of...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | May 19, 2015 | Writing |
Did we bypass spring and go directly to summer? We might assume so from the weather, but the arrival of the lambs and angora kids at Pine Hollow Farm would indicate otherwise. New life burgeoning from the wombs of sheep and goats, the smell of hay, the bleating of...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Mar 24, 2015 | Writing |
Abandoning the last draft of Finding Home for months turned out to be a wise move. Why? When I re-read the manuscript last weekend, I realized that once Sarah arrives in Canada to find her family, I lost interest in her in favour of Richard’s story. If a writer...
