MWG Writes on Q Issue 1, 2015 | Page 14

Mississauga Writers Group March 2015 A Thing of Bits & Pieces What’s it all about? This is not going to be Writing 101. If you want a course, then spend your hard-earned money on the somewhat dubious offerings of a writer’s workshop. You won’t learn how to write from classes: You’ll only learn what someone else thinks. You learn from reading, and writing. You learn from yourself. I hope to pass on a few tips gathered and learned over the course of more years than I care to admit, and over three million – yes 3,000,000 - words hammered out in the form of novels, short stories, screenplays and assorted jottings. In other words, this is about writing fiction. There’ll be no plan, no storyline: just thoughts and a few do’s and don’ts. So that’s my introductio