Making words count
New Year's Eve is almost here. The ultimate deadline, there's no putting it off. It's also that lull week between Christmas and NYE, and with…
Continue reading → One more sleep to countdown to 2015. How was your year?
The other week, I joined Twitter and was immediately flooded with information, including the news that Douglas Coupland was opening a new solo show at…
Continue reading → Review: Douglas Coupland exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Trying to appeal to cyclists with an ad placed at a bike rack, the image and copy don't add up to the clever pun they…
Internet, I can't take it anymore. Everywhere I look (i.e., comment boards), people are writing about "a hoard of people" or "hoards of people." If…
Today, I finally decided to join Twitter. It's exciting how many friends and conversations I've found already! Feel free to fly by and call out…
Remember road trips? Sometimes the purpose was the Road Trip itself; sometimes it had an actual destination. If you're a child of North America, chances…
I am saddened to hear that poet and activist Bud Osborn has died. I have just been drafting a post on road trip literature, and…
Continue reading → Thank you, Bud
∞Harper Lee will celebrate her 88th birthday this year by allowing her classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, to be published in e-book form. Lee…
Continue reading → To Kill a Mockingbird to be available as an e-book
Ever since I posted it many moons ago, Kerouac's Rules for Spontaneous Prose has been far and away the most visited post on the blog.…
If you've got a great story, poem or piece of creative non-fiction (i.e., essay, memoir or commentary) that needs to be read to be believed…
Continue reading → subTerrain’s Lush Triumphant literary contest: Deadline extended!
This has to be one of the coolest things I've heard of in a while: Amtrak is starting a writer's residency program. The deal is…
Vancouver, BC, has many spectacular natural sights. Views we have in abundance; go to any high place and you can gawk at the mountains, the…
“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” - Albert Einstein Two rays of light strike a surface at the same point, at the same time.…
Continue reading → subTerrain looking for “Coincidence” submissions
I thought I was being really clever combining the words procrastination and knitting to make "procrastiknitting" to describe the feeling of wanting to work on…
Continue reading → Not so clever after all. Darn.
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My good friends at Vancouver-based Subterrain magazine* are currently running a contest. Subscribe or renew before October 11, 2013, and you could win a very…
Editing and proofreading don't enjoy the glamorous image of writing. They're kind of like the siblings to the star. Sometimes you see a picture of,…
"Writing is starting." "Writing is finishing." Yay! Now that I have those two quotes down—I heard them somewhere and will check them later*—I have conquered…
And here are some other words I've been getting wrong! Thank you, Internet. Just deserts vs. just desserts - Grammarist. This website is all about…
Continue reading → Just deserts vs. just desserts and other expressions I thought I knew
Though I consider myself a pretty good speller and perceptive picker-upper of words, the connection between spelling and pronunciation of "segue" -- meaning to make…
Continue reading → Things no one tells you: How to pronounce segue
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Christine Rowlands Writing & Editing 