Sarah Selecky
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Articles by Sarah Selecky
Creative Curiosity: Reclaiming the Joy of Writing Original
I've always known I wanted to write. As a kid, I read everything from C. S. Lewis to V. C. Andrews, and started writing down my thoughts as soon as I could hold a pencil. In my teenage years, I filled journals with my loopy handwriting. Writing and I were best friends. (How to Write Novels Readers Really Love.) In my late teens, I began writing my first real short stories and tried to get them published, sending work to Sassy, Seventeen, and local newspapers.
READ INDIGENOUS - FICTION
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GEIST: Grandpa's Fries by Sarah Selecky, Findings - Geist.com
“Grandpa’s Fries” first appeared in Prism 51:2. My grandma was Italian, extremely petite, and superb in the kitchen. She taught me how to make fluffy, air-filled tapioca by whipping egg whites into meringue before stirring them into hot milk. She liked to eat oranges with thin slices of Vidalia onions, garbanzos, and a slim drizzle of extra virgin olive oil on top. Grandma always served herself on side plates, or in small glass ramekins, to make sure she ate tiny portions.
How moving to the country changed my style for the better
The day I decided to leave the city was an exceptionally beautiful September afternoon. I’d just had a massage and felt centred and clear, like I’d come back home. Then a fire engine seared through the intersection in front of me. Two more blared right behind it, red lights flashing. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. A sour aroma wafted from a sun-baked garbage can. As soon as I opened my eyes, a war jet swooped over me: a practice flight for the air show that weekend.
How Moving to the Country Changed My Style for the Better
Writer Sarah Selecky ditched big city life—and her big city wardrobe The day I decided to leave the city was an exceptionally beautiful September afternoon. I’d just had a massage and felt centered and clear, like I’d come back home. Then a fire engine seared through the intersection in front of me. Two more blared right behind it, red lights flashing. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. A sour aroma wafted from a sunbaked garbage can.
Writing from a state of calm.
I’ve known Suzanne Andrew for more than a decade. I know her to be a prolific journalist who has always impressed me with her productivity and high standards. When I asked her to write a piece for my site this summer, it was a pleasure and a surprise to learn about the stall she felt in her fiction — and how she had to learn how to treat herself with kindness in order to finish her novel.
Radiant Shimmering Light
Lilian Quick is an artist who creates portraits of her clients’ pets. What’s unusual about this is that she sees --- and paints --- the animals’ auras. She sees colorful glows around them and includes them in her pictures --- vivid oranges, rose-pinks, soft blues. She never sees the auras of humans, though. (It is not quite synesthesia, but certainly seems close to that.) This does limit her marketability somewhat, although her clients do help her via positive word-of-mouth.
'Our Art is Going to Get Us Through': Sarah Selecky on Writing 'Radiant Shimmering Light' — Kill Your Darlings
A sharply funny and heartfelt novel about female friendship, Sarah Selecky’s Radiant Shimmering Light (Text Publishing) looks at how, in our online lives, the line between personal empowerment and consumerism is increasingly blurred. Lilian Quick has looked up to her cousin Florence her whole life.
Sarah Selecky on the first time she bought a house.
I knew very little about the real estate market when Ryan asked me if I wanted to buy a house together. We lived in Toronto, and I thought that the kind of people who talked about mortgages – people who read the Financial pages of the newspaper, for instance – considered Toronto one of the most expensive markets in Canada. What did I know? I only read the Books section. I felt unprepared. But I understood Ryan’s point: Why were we paying so much rent when we could be investing in our own property?
Gossip Girl | The Walrus
Acouple of years ago, CTV flew me from Victoria to Vancouver to shoot an interview for an eTalk special on the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A producer emailed me a week before the taping: “Lainey (laineygossip.com/an eTalk reporter) will be hosting the special.” Curious, I followed the link to a page whose white-on-pink banner featured a stylized graphic of a woman holding a martini, her lips parted sardonically.
Why you should write by hand.
Making time to write by hand can be tough. I know: it’s messy, and it takes longer. A whole page of handwriting only comes to about half a page of typing once you transcribe it. Handwriting can look sloppy and unclear. And an hour’s worth of scribbling on a page in blue ink doesn’t hold nearly the same crispness and efficacy of a double-spaced page of sentences set in Times New Roman. And yet. Here are my three reasons for writing by hand (check out some more benefits here).
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