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November 29, 2021
Language and its mysterious relationship to us
My husband and I got into a discussion of poetry and our different approaches to it. His training is in new criticism. Mine embraces more contemporary work, though I’m eclectic and like many different styles, including John Ashbery’s method of disjointed narrative. My husband recognizes I’m onto something that Melville was alluding to in Moby […]
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November 22, 2021
Waiting for the Write Moment!
During the Covid pandemic, we’ve all done a lot of waiting, and we still are! We’re waiting to learn if there will be new aggressive variants of the virus. We’re waiting to see if we can spend time with family and friends during the holiday season without wearing masks. We’re waiting to see if 2022 […]
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November 15, 2021
Meet the author Monday: Judy Crozier, author extraordinaire
On my blog today I’m talking to the lovely and lively Judy Crozier. Her early life was a sweep through war-torn South-East Asia: Malaysia’s ‘Emergency’, Burma’s battles with hill tribes, and the war in Vietnam. By nine, Judy had read her way through the British Council Library, including Thackeray and Dickens. Home in Australia, she picked up […]
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November 8, 2021
Is Writing an Affliction for Writers?
I was pumping hard on the exercise bike at the gym while having a conversation with the fellow riding next to me. We had introduced ourselves and exchanged backgrounds. He had just learned that I’m a published writer and was intrigued by the idea, congratulating me on the recent release of my new novel The Ripening: […]
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November 1, 2021
Is Imagination the central pivot of human life?
I’m realizing that we take the imagination for granted. It isn’t enough to have imagination, but it needs to be recognized, educated, refined, and developed, just like any faculty. I could have a bent for playing the piano or singing, but nothing much will come of it without practice, lessons, and traversing the various levels […]
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October 25, 2021
Learn more about THE RIPENING: A CANADIAN GIRL GROWS UP
Thanks to Cliff Garstang for originally posting this interview with me on his blog: I’ve Got Questions for Lily Iona MacKenzie The Ripening by Lily Iona Mackenzie What’s the title of your book? Fiction? Nonfiction? Poetry? Who is the publisher and what’s the publication date? The Ripening: A Canadian Girl Grows Up, fiction, Pen-L Publishing, […]
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October 18, 2021
In Defense of Fiction: Is It Appropriate to Appropriate?
During a radio interview with Kate Raphael of KPFA’s Women’s Magazine, she asked me if I worried about being accused of appropriation because I’m writing about cultures/characters that aren’t my own. We were discussing my novel, Curva Peligrosa. Curva is originally from Southern Mexico. Another character, Billie One Eye, is half Blackfoot and half Scottish. […]
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October 11, 2021
Why do we need to go back to go forward?
As some of you know, I’ve completed another novel, The Ripening: A Canadian Girl Grows Up, that features Tillie, also the main character in Freefall: A Divine Comedy, the last novel I published. I thought I was finished with Tillie, the main character, but I’m not. Her life has become inextricably intertwined with my own, […]
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October 4, 2021
Meet-the-author Monday: Welcome to Canadian author Betty Jane Hegerat and her inspiring story!
Betty Jane Hegerat pens stories in the splendid writing community of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where she also teaches, mentors, and offers reading and substantive comment on selective works. Primarily a writer of fiction, her first love was the short story, and it still is, but she finds herself increasingly drawn to the personal essay. The […]
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September 27, 2021
How are writers like detectives?
I’ve been thinking recently how writers are like detectives. They need to be constantly observant, picking up clues from what people are wearing, how they gesture, the words they speak, the way they interact with others. They study others’ facial expressions and what they suggest, storing away the data in their memory banks or taking […]
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