Tag: #creative writing

• 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

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  #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

• Loving what’s local

  A behind the scenes look at running a poetry collective

  Renée M. Sgroi

  February 1, 2020

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  #amwriting, #arts, #blogging, #blogs, #CanLit, #community, #creative writing, #creativity, #February, #poetry, #poetry community, #poetry groups, #poets, #writers, #writingprocess

• Winter, writer

  It’s easy to begin the new year with a blog about new prospects, resolutions, new hopes and aspirations, especially as we all look forward to this new decade. But I want to begin this year’s blog, this new decade with the idea of winter. Real winter — the kind that brings double-digit, sub-zero temperatures. The…

  Renée M. Sgroi

  January 1, 2020

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  #2020, #amwriting, #arts, #artscommunity, #blogging, #blogs, #creative writing, #meditation, #newyearsday, #poetry, #poets, #winter, #writers, #writing, #writingasreflection, #writingcommunity, #writingmeditation, #writingpractice, #writingprocess

• Where’s your voice?

  When I was young, I used to take singing lessons. I had a romantic dream of singing in musicals, especially ones like West Side Story. In my fantasies, I would, of course, play the role of Maria, the star-crossed teenager, styled after Shakespeare’s Juliet. If I couldn’t be Maria in West Side Story, I would…

  Renée M. Sgroi

  March 24, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #creative writing, #poetry, #writing