In effort to make friends and meet more people within my city, I joined the Toronto chapter of Geek Girl Brunch. GGB is a social event where women who embrace the quirkier side of pop-culture – whether it be it video games, Doctor Who, Steven Universe, etc. – come together with the common goal of eating brunch and getting […]
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Outgrowing Your Writing Idols
Don’t bow down and worship idols. — Exodus 20:5 When I wrote Hey Arnold! fanfiction as a teen, there was an author whose work I admired. At that time, I had only just published my first completed story. But it was in script format, short, and suffered from the inclusion of an original character that took over the majority […]
What Fanfiction Has Taught Me About Writing
Originally published at writefarmlive.com on October 17, 2018. A co-worker noticed the Arnold figurine on my work desk. “You like Hey Arnold?” “I adore this show,” I blurted out, a bit too enthusiastically for a Monday morning. “Oh cool — I used to love the show as a kid,” she replied. That was the extent of our […]
How to Practice Gratitude in Miserable Weather
This is a follow-up to my previous article “It’s Hygge Time!” The extended winter-a-thon continues in my city of Toronto. I, like many others in this city, eyed the weekly forecast desperately, and looked forward to the weather prediction this week: a high temperature of 14⁰ Celsius (or just shy of 60⁰ Fahrenheit for you ‘Mericans […]