Lily Iona MacKenzie's Blog, page 31
January 6, 2020
Read this interview on my blog with guest author Terry Tierney who believes “Writing is breath. Never stop breathing.”
Terry’s bio: Terry’s stories and poems have appeared in over forty literary magazines, and his poetry collection, The Poet’s Garage, will be published in May 2020 by Unsolicited Press. He taught college composition and creative writing, and he later survived several Silicon Valley startups as a software engineering manager. Lucky Ride (Unsolicited Press), an irreverent Vietnam-era […]
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December 30, 2019
Doin’ what comes naturally!
I’ve been surprised by the questions I’ve received at readings and from friends about what is considered my overt treatment of sex in my novels. All of the characters, male and female, experience complications because of it. From the time I was four until I was eight, I lived on a farm on the Canadian […]
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December 23, 2019
What 10 things drive me to write
Since this is a time when many of us make lists of resolutions to follow in the new year, I thought it appropriate to share a different list with my readers. What ten things drive me to write? I have no choice. Writing is as important to me as food, so I must write regularly […]
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December 16, 2019
Are All Writers Artists?
Anyone can be a writer in the sense of putting sentences together that form longer narratives. But not all of these writers are artists. That’s the distinction I make between the work some people are publishing whether the book is self-published or travels the traditional route via a publisher, small or large. But why is […]
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December 9, 2019
What role does music have in good writing?
I was fortunate to have piano lessons when I was a girl. In Canada, if students are learning classical music, teachers usually follow the Royal Conservatory of Music progression from grades one through ten and utilize the books for each level. These lessons include theory as well as musical scores for students to progress in. […]
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December 2, 2019
Thumbs up for online writing critique groups
Writers spend a lot of time drafting poems, stories, and essays/memoirs, but as every serious writer knows, drafts are only the beginning. I know that I spend an enormous amount of time reviewing and rewriting every piece that I hope one day will be published. Even though I’ve taught writing for thirty-five years, and I’m […]
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November 25, 2019
Writing Back To Life
It’s wonderful to be writing again after my daily commitment was severely interrupted by launching and marketing Freefall: A Divine Comedy. Most people don’t realize how much effort is involved in publishing a book. It isn’t just the months of finetuning the manuscript before publication that are involved. It’s also all of the activities that happen […]
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November 18, 2019
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Slow Movement
I’ve resisted reading the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard’s work for several reasons. I wasn’t interested in a major dose of navel gazing for hundreds of pages. He seemed to represent the worst of our narcissistic culture, the constant selfies and focus on me me me. Why would I spend hundreds of pages following him […]
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November 11, 2019
Meet author Terra Ziporyn in this fabulous interview: “We should stop worrying about genres, reality, and imagination, and think instead about telling good stories.”
Meet my guest author Terra Ziporyn, fiction and non-fiction writer. When did you write your first book and how did it come about? It’s hard to answer this question because I’ve been writing “books” since I was a kid, and the trajectory of my fiction and non-fiction is very different. I guess I completed my […]
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November 4, 2019
What writers can learn from the composer Shostakovich
My husband and I recently attended a concert featuring the Shostakovich Violin Concerto #1 with soloist Christian Tetzlaff. The exhilarating performance is still reverberating within me, the work a stunning blend of instruments and tonal shifts. The opus also challenges any concert violinist to demonstrate his/her best relationship with his/her instrument and the score. Tezlaff not […]
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