On Writing

Writing is important for my mental health, but my mental illness means I’m unable to take it on as a career.

My Writing Process

Everyone has a different writing process. I share mine here – what’s yours?

Environment writer interviews: Sarah Boon

For background on this series, see my first post. So far we’ve talked with Rebecca Lawton, an environment writer based in California; Abby Palmer, a nature writer based in the Lower Mainland of BC; Korice Moir, a water policy researcher and writer based in Toronto; Kimberly Moynahan, a science writer based in Toronto; and Cynthia…

Environment writer interviews: Korice Moir

For background on this series, see my first post. So far we’ve talked with Rebecca Lawton, an environment writer based in California, and Abby Palmer, a nature writer based in the Lower Mainland of BC. Our third interviewee is Korice Moir. As with our previous two interviewees, I first met Korice via Twitter through our…

The Space Between Science and Story

When I was a kid I played ‘newspaper reporter’. I’d drag my dad’s heavy typewriter out of the closet, roll in a sheet of scrap paper with a flourish, and pound away. My ‘newspaper’ consisted of a letter-sized piece of paper, with each story (and catchy headline, of course) taking up a short paragraph. Everything…