Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Writer’s Block

    I’ve been thinking about Annie’s comment on Monday, and on writing more blog posts about writing. Since I don’t have a guest booked for today, and it is NaNoWriMo, I thought it might be interesting to talk about the great boogeyman that plagues writers. (Or at least gives us nightmares.) Writers’ block. Writer’s block means…

  • Thoughts on Writers

    I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and decided to toss it out to all of you today. Do you think writers are becoming boring? I belong to a number of writers’ groups and listserves. Once upon a time, these were pretty interesting places to hang out. We’d talk about publishers and their programs…

  • NaNoWriMo

    November is National Novel Writing Month, and the annual frenzy of NaNoWriMo. This org encourages writers to push forward on the their work for the entire month of November, with the goal of writing 50,000 words by the end of the month. You can register through the site, and there are prizes available as well…

  • Editing and Carpets

    Things have been quiet around Alive & Knitting the past few days, because I’ve been working on a revision. This is not a bad thing, but it’s always an intense phase. So, naturally, I have an analogy for you. Writing a book is like weaving a tapestry. You choose your colours the way you might…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, Columbus Day in the U.S. Either way, I hope you have the day off work and something delicious planned for dinner. We had our turkey dinner on Saturday, so we have leftovers – which I actually enjoy more. 🙂 Count your blessings and have a good day.