At first, I didn’t want to share any of my work, worse, I didn’t feel like I was someone who could read another person’s writing and offer feedback (something you had to do before you could post your own words.) So I signed up, but didn’t go further than that. She sent me to a website called Scribophile, which is an online writing community based around critiquing each other’s works and sharing craft advice. I wrote well, but I had to learn the basics. Through a mutual contact, Genevieve offered to read some of my works and gave me amazing advice. I figure I’d just write for fun for the rest of my life. I never considered publishing was an option for me. I didn’t want to break down books, I only wanted to read and write them. What I didn’t excel at was trying to pick apart the meaning in books, trying to dig into the prose and write an essay on what I’d just read. Which was weird, since I loved to read and I loved to tell stories. I was not an English major, in fact, for most of my high school and university careers, it was my least favourite subject. Maggie, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process. We were lucky to catch up with Maggie Giles recently and have shared our conversation below.
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