Jo-Anne Richard’s blog

I don’t like New Year’s resolutions at the best of times. If you made any last year, they were no doubt thrown into disarray. We’ve never experienced a time quite like that. So, it feels a little [...]

If last year taught us anything, it was that nothing should be taken for granted. Remember when we hankered just for a trip to the supermarket? Well, don’t let’s take anything for granted this [...]

All About Writing co-founder Jo-Anne Richards is the designer and facilitator of many of our courses including our flagship Creative Writing Course and our popular Saturday Writing Workshops. She [...]

All About Writing co-founder Jo-Anne Richards is the designer and facilitator of many of our courses including our flagship Creative Writing Course and our popular Saturday Writing Workshops She [...]

All About Writing co-founder Jo-Anne Richards is the designer and facilitator of many of our courses including our flagship Creative Writing Course and our popular Saturday Writing Workshops She [...]

Something has shifted this year. We’re (many of us through necessity) spending less. We’re more aware of what’s important. That means focusing on the people we hold dear and on our creative [...]

“He was a gentleman with red whiskers who always went first through a doorway.” This is how Guy de Maupassant described a character in one of his stories. Its details are so vivid and particular [...]

Have you ever wanted to write your life story? Joanne Hichens, author of the recently-published memoir Death and the After Parties, joined our own Jo-Anne Richards last week for a free webinar to [...]

Have you ever wanted to write an memoir? Joanne Hichens, author of the recently-published memoir Death and the After Parties, joined our own Jo-Anne Richards for a free webinar to answer all your [...]

We never forget our first loves, do we? Not in life and certainly not in fiction. Last week’s blog caused in me a nostalgic sigh for the days when I sought high and low for my own Joshua Shapiro. [...]

In my early twenties, I fell in love with Mordecai Richler’s Joshua Shapiro, the protagonist from his novel, Joshua Then and Now, and spent years searching for someone just like him, so I could [...]

I don’t know about you, but there are characters from books that I remember quite as clearly as the people I grew up with. They are as real to me, and they helped shape the person I became just [...]