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