From Text to Song with Vivek Shraya
Posted on September 11 by Farzana Doctor in Interview
A conversation between All Inclusive author Farzana Doctor and Canadian singer songerwriter Vivek Shraya.
Interview
Category: Interview
"For fifty years there has been no reading, writing, singing or reciting. The people have been made illiterate. What happens when a nation with a great cultural history is stripped of its achievements and must start out anew?..."
"Twenty years ago my grandfather and I were out for a drive. There was a car on the road ahead with an Alberta license plate and a bumper sticker of the Newfoundland flag. He said, “There’s a Saltwater Cowboy.”
Talking with Ann Ireland
Posted on April 2 by Kyle in Interview
"The phone rang and I raced to get it, knowing people were meditating downstairs. The person at the other end of the line introduced himself as being Roy Lowther..."
"I honestly don’t know how much innate talent plays out in all this, but until you’ve written maybe a half dozen or so books, complete with lots of feedback, you haven’t really tried. If you keep writing and keep submitting and keep writing, regardless of rejections and the opinions of others, you will reach your apogee, regardless of where that is..."
"At age 58, while standing on a street corner in my Belgravia neighbourhood, in Edmonton, a flood of verse just came into head, and I began writing..."
"Anyone’s life from the age of say, twenty-one to thirty-five encompasses many milestones. I was twenty-one when we first met, twenty-three when I moved in and thirty-five when I had to continue my journey solo. Irving was forty-eight years my senior..."
Tell us about your book.
bout my second Book “On the Goose” When “So Few on Earth” came out, there was a great demand from my readers to continue my story. Therefore, at their request I decided to write the next seventeen years of my life as a young bride and mother in Happy Valley Goose Bay. Labrador.
What was your first publication?
My first publication was So Few on Earth. A Labrador Metis Woman Remembers.
"The essence is to just sit down in a quiet place, undisturbed, and keeping your rear end in the chair and keep writing..."
"Don Maass says every page of a story should have something that moves the reader to the next page..."