Naomi’s Writing Journey
Behind the scenes of my debut novel, personal reflections, and insights on writing.
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The Spaces That Shape My Stories
Writers talk a lot about “sense of place,” but what I’ve realized over the years is that every writer has a very particular sense of place — the kind that makes them feel grounded enough to create. For some people it’s mountains, forests, or wide lakeside vistas. For me, it has always been cities. Maybe…
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What I Learned About Creativity Last Year
January always feels like a pause between breaths — a moment when the old year hasn’t quite let go and the new one is only beginning to blink awake. It’s a good time to look back, gently, and consider what the past twelve months have taught me about the strange, beautiful, unpredictable process of making…
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Creative Cartography: Mapping Where Stories Want to Live
December has settled in thickly here — the kind of winter that arrives with its own architecture. Snow rounding the edges of rooftops. The hush that falls over everything once the temperature drops. The way the landscape simplifies itself, stripping down to its essentials. There’s something about winter that makes me think about place in…
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Creative Seasons: When the Story Needs Space to Breathe
For the past several weeks, my writing life has slipped quietly into one of those unexpected “wintering” phases — the kind we don’t always plan for, but usually learn from. This wasn’t a conscious retreat. It was more like the feeling of walking through a familiar forest trail and realizing the path has narrowed for…
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First They Came… Again? Why Canadians Can’t Ignore U.S. Politics
This isn’t my usual subject matter. Normally, I write about more personal or creative topics, but today I feel compelled to speak out about the political situation unfolding in the United States—and how it might ripple across the border into Canada. I don’t align “left” because I made a conscious decision to join a team.…
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Where Does Consciousness Go?
Lately, with everything going on in my life, I’ve been circling back to one of those questions that sits at the edge of grief: what happens to consciousness when someone dies? I notice that even a lot of religious people, when they talk about the afterlife, frame it as something vague and mythological — as…
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