[stylist] {Spam?} New member, well old member returning

[Vejas]

Hi Tessa,
I remember you. I remember specifically because when I originally joined the WritersChat list, when such a list was in existence, I think you were the first to reply.
CongragulNs on your place in the  contest.
That sucks that Bookshare won't let you have access to all books being from Canada. If I were a Canadian, I believe that that would be a battle worth fighting, LOL.
This list is definitely still active. It has quietness down a little, people still write poems and occasional stories and I have just gotten back into the writing scene. While a student at LCB I admit to not being very active, but I plan to change that.
Good luck.
Vejas

> On Oct 5, 2016, at 15:46, Tessa via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> It's been a number of years since I was on this list. I'm glad to be back.
> 
> My name is Tessa and I've been writing at least since the early 80's and 
> telling stories before then.
> 
> This has been a very good year for me where writing is concerned. I belong 
> to the Northwestern Ontario writers workshop one hundred or so members 
> strong and very active. I've had three pieces published in our NOWW magazine 
> this year, absolutely amazing.
> 
> Every year NOWW runs a writing contest open to anyone. One of the categories 
> was novel excerpt which we haven't had as a category in the past. I 
> submitted two pieces and won first and third. I'm still on cloud nine when I 
> think about that LOL.
> 
> I mostly write novels and have about a dozen rough drafts waiting for some 
> serious polishing. In 2010 I took the NaNoWriMo challenge for the first time 
> and that piece was my first prize winner, my 2014 NaNoWriMo piece won third. 
> So, is anyone else doing NaNoWriMo?
> 
> For anyone unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo it begins November 1st and the idea is 
> the write 50,000 words in 30 days. At the moment I'm trying to figure out 
> just what I'm going to write.
> 
> Also, we Canadians now have limited access to bookshare and the incredible 
> amount of research material available there. I Love it. I just finished 
> reading Laura Deutsch's book writing from the senses 59 exercises to Ignite 
> your writing, a terrific exploration of the senses and exercises to 
> encourage people to think about the things they taste, touch feel and so on, 
> even as a writer who is blind I appreciated it and will need to read it 
> again to do the exercises.
> 
> I use a braille notetaker for a lot of my writing though in the past I have 
> used slate and styless on old magazine papers. I still have some of that 
> stuff but it's so faded I'm not sure it's even readable any more or worth 
> reading. A local poet told me she had burned all her old work, to me it was 
> devistating, how could she do that, she said it was liberating, LOL. I 
> suppose that makes sense, I look at some of my old stuff and cringe.
> 
> Anyway just thought I'd say hi.
> 
> Tessa
> 
> 
> 
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