WHO ARE WE
Northern Lights Mystery Writers is based in North Western Ontario; land of the Northern Lights. Due to our isolation from the large urban areas, we fiction writers often feel left out of major activities and groups designed to support and encourage Canadians in the art, craft and business of Creative Writing.
While our group meets online, we also get together in central locations to enjoy workshops and courses designed with Northerner mystery writers in mind.
Our creator, Jude McCoy, is an award winning, published author of Christian Fiction. Having earned an Honours in Creative Writing she enjoys teaching adult classes where she encourages others to step into the wonderful world of fiction writing. She has instructed a course for the American Christian Fiction Writers, as well as organized and intructed several creative writing workshops throughout Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba.
Jude has more than twenty-five published books with her personal fingerprints on them through her editing/proofreading services, her consulting and mentoring, or her Fiction Writing courses offered at www.awriterstoolbox.com.
While basically a short story writer, she has two novels in the works and hopes to have her first, A Mountain Pass published very soon.
Through this group, you have access to many professional fiction writing helps - ranging from character and story development consultations, to pertinent market information.
While still taking our group's baby steps, we hope to soon become an important part of the Northern Ontario, Minnesota, and Manitoba's artistic community.
QUOTES ON WRITING
Isaac Asimov:
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Gloria Steinem:
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Jack Lynch:
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jessamyn West:
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Mark Twain:
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
