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• Desert island books

  “February = love = poetry (and also maybe flowers or chocolates, but what you do on your own time is your business)”

  Renée M. Sgroi

  February 1, 2021

  Uncategorized

  #desertislandbooks, #funny, #funnyblogs, #humor, #humour, #poet, #poetry, #poetry community, #poets, #writing, #writingpractice, #writingprocess

• A Year in Review

  “Number of times I’ve cursed said cat and dog for puking on the floor: about 10 for the cat, at least once for the dog”

  Renée M. Sgroi

  January 1, 2021

  Uncategorized

  #2021, #amwriting, #blog, #blogger, #blogging, #bloghumour, #blogs, #CanLit, #funnyblogs, #humor, #humour, #NewYear, #NewYear2021, #newyearsday, #Novel, #novelist, #novelwriter, #poet, #poetry, #poetry #writing process #community #writers #writinginterviews #TheWildNellies, #poetry community, #poets, #writer, #writers, #writingpractice, #YearEnd2020, #YearInReview2020

• Family Recipes

  “these little bits of extra information also tell a story about the people … who’ve used these recipes to create these family treats”

  Renée M. Sgroi

  December 1, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #amwriting, #baking, #blog, #blogger, #blogging, #bloghumour, #blogs, #familyrecipes, #humour

• “We’re so much more than that”

  “I’d like writers to move beyond the regional and the factual. Move beyond Calabria. The wonderful thing about the Sicilian writer, Giuseppe Lampedusa, is that he took his very specific, particular experience about life in a Sicily on the cusp of huge change in The Leopard and he made it universal.”

  Renée M. Sgroi

  November 1, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #CanLit, #italiancanadian, #italianculture, #italiandiaspora, #italianheritage, #StationsoftheHeart, #stories, #story, #storytelling, #writers, #writing, #writingcommunity, #writinginterview, #writinginterviews #shortstory, #writingpractice, #writingprocess

• Inspired by Story

  “I think a writer has an obligation, a twofold obligation. One is to bring forth the truth that is within, and the other is to bear witness in this world”

  Renée M. Sgroi

  October 1, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #amwriting, #CanLit, #inspiredbystory, #italiancanadian, #italiandiaspora, #italianheritage, #shortstories, #shortstory, #shortstorywriter, #shortstorywriters, #story, #storyteller, #storytelling, #writer, #writers, #writing, #writingcommunity, #writinginterview, #writingprocess

• A long time coming…

  Do you remember when you were a kid, and you thought about what you were going to “be” when you grew up? Maybe you wanted to be an astronaut, or a doctor, or a veterinarian. Me? I always wanted to be a writer. But the question so many writers ask themselves is: am I really…

  Renée M. Sgroi

  September 1, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #amwritinig, #CanLit, #debutpoetrybook, #debutpoetrycollection, #poet, #poetry, #poetrybook, #poetrycollection, #poets, #writer, #writers, #writing, #writingprocess

• The Nature of Change

  Change is inevitable. It brings about a sense of loss for what is being left behind, but it also forces us to go forward and create new paths, forge new friendships, and generate new ideas

  Renée M. Sgroi

  June 1, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #amwriting, #change, #contests, #COVID19, #poetry, #poetry community, #poetry groups, #poets, #summer, #transformations, #writers, #writing, #writingpractice, #writingprocess

• Collaboration Inc.

  “we felt that if we worked on something together, we would help to push each other through”

  Renée M. Sgroi

  May 1, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #amwriting, #blogger, #blogging, #blogs, #CanLit, #CBCradio, #co-authors, #collaboration, #community, #creative writing, #shortstories, #womxnwriters, #writers, #writing, @CBCHereandNow

• Thoughts on a pandemic

  

  ” how to write about something so massive, so pervasive, so threatening?”

  Renée M. Sgroi

  March 31, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #amwriting, #blog, #blogger, #blogging, #blogs, #CanLit, #community, #COVID19, #creative writing, #writers, #writing, #writingcommunity, #writingpractice

• Playing in the toolbox

  

  But do we really play? Just have fun with the sport, the musical instrument, the piece of writing we’re working on? Do we improvise for the sake of improvising?

  Renée M. Sgroi

  March 1, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #amwriting, #arts, #artscommunity, #blog, #blogger, #blogging, #blogs, #CanLit, #creative writing, #creativity, #fiction, #novelist, #play, #poetry, #poets, #writer, #writers, #writing, #writingcommunity, #writingpractice, #writingprocess