by Kirsten Mah | Dec 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Photo by Monstera on Pexels.com If you are anything like me, you are looking forward to seeing the backside of 2021. It has been, and continues to be, the longest year of my life, filled with stress and pandemic accommodations. While feeling more like a century than...
by Kirsten Mah | Oct 26, 2021 | Creative Stuff, Inspiration, Random Thoughts, Writing Process
This year’s conference logo. www.sicwathome.ca This past weekend, for the first time in two years, I attended the Surrey International Writer’s Conference. This conference set me on the path of realizing my dream of being a writer. If it weren’t for...
by Kirsten Mah | Aug 6, 2021 | fiction, Inspiration, Writer angst, Writing Advice, Writing Process
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The last two weeks, I’ve been indulging in a favourite past-time, trying to savour it because it comes only once every four years (or five if there’s a pandemic)- watching the summer Olympics. I’m definitely an armchair athlete;...
by Kirsten Mah | Jul 10, 2021 | Random Thoughts, Writer angst, Writing Advice, Writing Process
Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com Ten days post second shot, as my jurisdiction loosens more and more of its COVID restrictions, I have come to a stark realization. I am flabby- physically, sadly (stupid ‘COVID 15’) as well as socially flabby. I am...
by Kirsten Mah | May 29, 2021 | Writer angst, Writing Advice, Writing Process
Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com Almost halfway into this year, I struggle, hard, with one word I picked to guide me through 2021: momentum. Momentum: the force that keeps an object moving, or keeps an event developing after it has started.Cambridge Dictionary I...
by Kirsten Mah | Mar 5, 2021 | Inspiration, Random Thoughts, Writer angst, Writing Process
Photo by Samuel Silitonga on Pexels.com Recently the provincial health officer where I live, the indomitable Dr. Bonnie Henry, likened the pandemic, now into its second year (blech) as a marathon. She sounded excited and upbeat when she said we were halfway to the...
by Kirsten Mah | Jan 26, 2021 | Inspiration, Random Thoughts, Writing Advice, Writing Process, Writing Resources
Photo by Julia Volk on Pexels.com So, how’s 2021 treating you so far? We’ve made it past Blue Monday, the third Monday of the New Year, and statistically the “saddest” day of the year- phew! And the change in leadership for our neighbours to the south (congratulations...
by Kirsten Mah | Jan 8, 2021 | Inspiration, Writing Advice, Writing Process
Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com It’s that time of year again- new year resolution time. Ugh. I ditched making actual resolutions a few years ago- they were mostly making me feel like a failure- and for the past few years what I’ve done instead is...
by Kirsten Mah | Dec 3, 2020 | #NaNoWriMo, Creative Stuff, Inspiration, Random Thoughts, Writing Advice
When my kids were younger, right about the time they became allergic to taking baths, they used to grumble when I made them dress up for events, like fancy family dinners or holiday parties. “What’s the point?” they’d wail. “It’s just another day!” My answer was...
by Kirsten Mah | Nov 23, 2020 | Inspiration, Random Thoughts, Writer angst, Writing Advice
Cheery check marks: Photo by author As the Universe is wont to do, this past week the answer to a problem I’ve long grappled with crossed my path, not once but several times. The problem, though it may just be my inner editor screwing with me, is this: If no one ever...
by Kirsten Mah | Nov 9, 2020 | Creative Stuff, Inspiration, Writer angst, Writing Advice, Writing Resources
NaNoWriMo, 2020 Edition I must confess- I’m *supposed* to be working on my NaNoWriMo project right now. I pledged to write 50,000 works on my current work in progress, a young adult fantasy novel, by the end of November, as I have for the last four or five Novembers....
