Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Publication Day: Musings From A (Finally) Published Author!
I’m Published! So today is finally my formal publication day. Everyone keeps asking me about whether or not I’m excited. My answer is either: (1) I don’t know; or, (2) if a tree falls in the woods and there’s no one there the hear the noise it makes as it falls, does it truly make…
Read MoreHow Writing A Novel Is Like Being An Amateur Chef
“Ok,” you’re thinking, “Brent put too much Bailey’s in his coffee this morning.” Either that, or he’s still feeling the effects of the wine from the night before. But in fact, neither of those scenarios, though plausible, is accurate. How Writing Resembles Cooking When I wrote Those Who Would Be King: The People’s Prince, I…
Read MoreInspiration for Those Who Would Be King
Finding Inspiration I have always been fascinated with development in Africa. In the early 1980s, a family from the farming community of Sussex, New Brunswick, sold their modern dairy farm and moved to Africa. They were the initial family – the pioneers, per se – to be sent to a sub-Saharan African country on a development…
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