Author: Sierra Skye Gemma

Goodbye Prozac! Hello Manuscript!

Read this article, “Creative People Are Literally Crazy,” from Jezebel online magazine!

Yay, I’m famous!

OK, not really, but still…check me out on Inside Vancouver!

How To Know You Are An Artist

According to Elizabeth Hand, these are the symptoms of being an artist: 1 – Interested in everything, generally, and nothing specifically. 2 – Feel like you might die in a 9-5. 3 – homework? 4 – can only commit fully to your own projects. 5 – mostly only interested in

Funny and Awesome Tips for Writers

So I only realized today that the very talented Elizabeth Hand has a blog. Elizabeth is another writer in the UBC MFA Program in Creative Writing. She does some pretty awesome stuff. Apparently one of the things she does is write some great How-To’s. Check these out: How to Write

I’ll marry a lovely bookworm

This year, I spent St. Patrick’s Day with friends, drinking copious amounts of wine. It got me to thinking about St. Paddy’s Days Past. St. Patrick’s Day of 2009 was particularly memorable. My then 9-year-old son said to me, “I’m full Irish, right?” I said, “No, you’re Irish, Scottish, some English and

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