100 Ways

You're creative. You can come up with 100 excuses why it's not convenient to write. The 'y' on your keyboard is missing. Jay Leno is on. Your cat named Jay Leno ate your keyboard. The truth is, writing is damned inconvenient. It's never convenient to have a plot or character bothering you when you're supposed …

Our Person Is In There, Typing Away…

1 year old Marmie:  You think it's safe to go out there? That white stuff is truly gone? 15 year old Sam: Our person is in there, typing away all day on that warm flat silver device she won't let us sit on. I don't want to leave her side. She seems like she needs …

“I can shake my eyeballs back & forth really fast” Author @hgracestewart

I woke to find this phrase in my Twitter newsfeed. Not retweeted once, or twice, like I'm used to, but filling the entire newsfeed. People have been retweeting an interview I did for the wonderful site Celebrating Authors, with wonderful interviewer & author Carolyn Arnold (@Carolyn_Arnold) since it came out yesterday, and haven't stopped yet. …

Spring Clean Your Inner Artist!

Every one of us is creative. Every one of us has an inner artist (I'm going to call him Art for the sake of brevity) but we don't all take the time to nurture Art. It's hard work nurturing a creative child with a mind of its own, and it can be frustrating —painful even, …

National Poetry Month Events

Hey there. I'm not sure how many of you regular readers of WHERE THE BUTTERFLIES GO actually live in the Montreal area, but I'm doing a few special events for National Poetry Month and wanted you to know about them in case you can attend.  Click on the photos to reach the event pages! If …