Projects List May 2016

BABY... yes, she takes up the majority of my time.

But that has not stopped me from thinking about writing...

Here is a list of the current writing projects:

• Young Writers Anthology volume 2
• Secular Ethics & Paganism Research Paper
• Esoteric Buddhism & Paganism: Rites of Initiation Comparison Paper
• Try again to format French MMBOS v2
• Zen of Tea book with a section on Meditation with Tea
• Fair Fundraiser Anthology: Words from the Community
• Consider a third MMBOS volume: Wisdom from the Staff
• Work on Chakra book
• review fanfiction stories that are all pending new installments
• Crash Course English Tutoring for Grades 5/6 in Preparation for High School Entrance Exams
• Reading Comprehension
• Spelling & Vocabulary
• Grammar / Writing Conventions
• Paragraph & Essay Writing

My current focus are the first three on the list.

Academia . edu

I now have a profile on Academia.edu where scholars and authors and teachers post their research, their papers, and their publications. I put up three of my papers. I will put up more, but I am too busy working on a new one right now.

New paper: "Masculinity in Contemporary Paganism"

Here is the link to my profile for those interested: https://concordia.academia.edu/ScarletJory

Inspiring Youth

While I did not meet the 50K goal this year for NaNoWriMo, I did accomplish starting a brand new session for Young Writers.

The Young Writers Club with Stepping Up 2.0 is a great opportunity for students to improve all aspects of their English: reading comprehension, spelling & vocabulary, and writing conventions (grammar). They will also learn how to write a story and how to publish and market it in an anthology. All the stories, as well as some of the essays and writing prompts will get published sometime Spring 2016.

I absolutely LOVE inspiring youth to be literate and to add to youth literature!

NaNoWriMo 2015

It has BEGUN!!!

I am working on 2 fanfictions for this year. Well, I intended to work on the Trust & Guardianship series, but got stuck. So I popped over to my Harry Potter: Sorted Too Young story and cranked out a TON of writing! Now I am back at the Trust & Guardianship series feeling more capable and motivated.

This year I am an unofficial ML (Municipal Liaison). I am helping maintain the Montreal Nano calendar, keeping on top of the Nano-Mlt Facebook page and hosting a Wednesday Write-in at Concordia's Webster Library.

This year, Montrealers voted that the symbol for write-ins match this year's NaNoWriMo theme is the book and Quill. FEATHERS! I have acquired feathers for this theme.

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo is upon us! I do this every year. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Every November, thousands of people strive to write 50 000  words in 30 days. This year, I am an unofficial ML  (municipal liaison). Maybe next year it will be official. I will have to see how it goes.

I hope to complete the second novel in my Trust & Guardianship trilogy. The hard part yo this year is that i must also write a 10k word research paper for school at the same time. EEP!

I also hope to start a Young Writers Program again this year and publish another anthology of the children's stories.

Good luck and happy writing to everyone participating!

Mentioned in the Media

Around the World: Canadians in Print

For many pagans, books are the gateway to knowledge. They are our first teachers of magic and offer a new world of esoteric lore and knowledge. If you enter the home of just about any modern pagan you will no doubt find a bookshelf (or many bookshelves!) piled high with books written by English authors such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente or the Farrars. There will no doubt be more than a few by high profile American writers, names like Margot Adler, Isaac Bonewits and Scott Cunningham or maybe the more contemporary Orion Foxwood or Christopher Penczack. Both Britain and the United States both have successful and high profile publishers of pagan books, Minnesota based Llewellyn Worldwide LTD. being easily one of the most prominent. But north of the border, up in Canada, a growing number of writers are finding their way into print and injecting a Canadian influence into the pagan publishing world. But does being from Canada influence pagan writing?

- See more at: http://wildhunt.org/2014/09/walking-the-world-canadians-in-print.html#sthash.eefz0tGs.dpuf

 

Female Novelist Learns How Far a Male Pen Name Can Take Her

There is a gender bias in the publishing industry. Women’s writing often gets talked about differently, reviewed differently (if at all), and the content judged differently than writing by men. Of course, publishing is only one industry in which unconscious bias about names based on gender or race exists, and there have been studies done to explore this in other industries. In the case of publishing, a female novelist by the name of Catherine Nichols decided to try an experiment.

For those unfamiliar with the process, generally publishing houses don’t accept unsolicited manuscripts, which means that the first thing a writer needs to do is get an agent interested in their work, and............

FOR THE WHOLE ARTICLE: http://www.themarysue.com/female-novelist-male-nom-de-plume/