Lily Iona MacKenzie's Blog, page 25
February 22, 2021
Find out how a Canadian Girl in Training (ha!) becomes a famous writer (ha ha)
Find out how a high school dropout, Canadian Girl in Training, and single parent moved from Calgary to San Francisco and eventually became a published author! Lily Iona MacKenzie reveals how the lines between characters and author can become blurred! Penpodcast.com is a place for authors to share their work and process with the world.
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February 15, 2021
Do novelist’s books really come fully formed?
Before I committed myself to writing and became part of that world, I had no idea what was involved in constructing a novel. I assumed the narrative flowed easily from the writer’s pen to paper (and in those days, a lot of writing was done with a pen or pencil, though typewriters also were used). […]
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February 8, 2021
What goes into creating characters
When I was 13, I began keeping a diary. But since I feared someone might read it, I invented a coded language to record whatever I needed to write about at that time. I don’t know what happened to the diary. But I like to think that whoever found it thought s/he had stumbled on […]
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February 1, 2021
Meet Sally Whitney!
Meet Sally Whitney! Her new novel, When Enemies Offend Thee, takes her readers on a thrilling ride. In this interview, she discusses how her narratives evolve into spellbinding mysteries. Some of her answers may surprise you! Although Sally Whitney has spent most of her adult life in other parts of the United States, her imagination lives […]
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Meet Sally Whitney! Her new novel, When Enemies Offend Th...
Meet Sally Whitney! Her new novel, When Enemies Offend Thee, takes her readers on a thrilling ride. In this interview, she discusses how her narratives evolve into spellbinding mysteries. Some of her answers may surprise you! Although Sally Whitney has spent most of her adult life in other parts of the United States, her imagination lives […]
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January 25, 2021
Awakening through reading & writing
Writing is such a major part of my life that I rarely ask myself why I do it. I write because it’s as necessary to me as eating or sleeping. But I also write for other reasons. The very act of writing forces me to examine what I’m thinking about people and events, and it […]
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January 18, 2021
Revise ourselves with deep revision!
I’m a member of the Berkeley branch of the California Writers Club. They usually have a monthly meeting that includes a speaker who presents something writing related. Yesterday, Laurel Yourke, author of Beyond the First Draft: Deep Novel Revision, gave a 45 minute overview of recommendations she offers to poetry and fiction writers on how […]
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January 11, 2021
Thanks to Cliff Garstang for publishing this interview with me on his website. Take a look!
I’ve got questions for Lily Iona MacKenzie
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January 4, 2021
Learn from Per Petterson, the writer’s writer
I’ve gone bonkers over Per Petterson’s writing. Born in Norway in 1952, Petterson was a librarian and a bookseller before he published his first work in 1987, a volume of short stories. His third novel, Out Stealing Horses, became an international best seller. Since then, he has published three other novels, which have established his […]
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December 28, 2020
Heading into 2021: An endless cycle
I didn’t start out to include Trump in my end of year poem. He’s taken up enough psychic space during the past four years, and I need a complete break from him. But my poetry self apparently had unfinished business, leaving me with the following poem, “Recycling,” which speaks for itself! Recycling Given that […]
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