Today I welcome a guest post by Kieran Lyne discussing Sherlock Holmes and the longevity of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ as part of the Halloween 2014 series. Some words possess a quality, a magic spark which instantly conjures certain images to our minds. If I were to say ‘Halloween’ for example, what would come … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with writer Joyce Thierry Llewellyn. Who are you? I was a field biology technician in Northern Ontario then went back to university to focus on creative writing and became a magazine and newspaper journalist before moving into film and television screenwriting and story editing, which I’ve now been doing for almost … [Read more…]
I’ve been binge-watching some awesome shows this summer with my husband, and the compelling storylines and characters in these shows have made me think about my own writing. Which is one of the wonders of art: the way you can connect it to different creative forms. So I’m doing a short writing series on the … [Read more…]