Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 6B by Betsy Warland 2008. Fourteen stories high in the Hilton. Looking down on the Detroit River, Windsor Ontario side. Oscar there launching Silences. A book Oscar edited. Thirty-six academics writing on. The river...
Tomorrow (Tuesday August 13th), a new Oscar excerpt will be posted. The Guest Writer is David Leach. I just wanted to let subscribers know that the email notification tomorrow will look a little different than usual because the Excerpts of Oscar of Between page has a...
This is one of the most challenging points in writing any narrative: how to move from an idea, or an initial jotting of an intriguing snippet on to a sustained inscribing of the narrative. It’s so tenuous! With Bloodroot, I did something instinctively: I begin writing...
The seed for writing Bloodroot was sown the fall before my mother’s death in May. I had driven down from Saskatoon to visit her in Fort Dodge, Iowa at the care facility she lived in. This was the area in which she had lived her entire life. One afternoon while having...
Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 3 by Betsy Warland Category: Oscar’s anathema. Although others’ descriptions for her loneness change over the years – tomboy, headstrong, stubborn, independent, odd, rebellious, arrogant, different,...
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