About

Writ­ing Your­self into the Web.

Since col­lege (Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions — a 2 year pro­gram at Cen­ten­nial Col­lege in Toronto, Ontario) I’ve become a web writer. I didn’t plan it that way. June 1996, I started online as an IRC diva. I started writ­ing online (not count­ing per­sonal sites) in 1998. I still write for my own sites, assorted web net­works and I am writ­ing fic­tion for print media. Work­ing from home is not easy, there are a ton of dis­trac­tions and fam­ily who don’t sup­port the idea. Then you get the per­fect day, alone at last, only to find you can’t focus on writ­ing at all.

I’ve writ­ten for WZ.com, Bel­laOn­line, Her Planet, BackWash.com as well as Lock­erGnome and Suite101 which are still active sites.  Other sites and net­works have dis­ap­peared with my writ­ing. (Always keep your own copy of any­thing you write!) I was an active edi­tor with Dmoz (The Open Direc­tory Project) for ten years, a lot of that time edit­ing in Arts: Writ­ers Resources. Cur­rently, I am an edi­tor at BOTW.

I have expe­ri­ence, insight and a lot of opin­ions about writ­ing and pub­lish­ing on the Inter­net. I don’t think I’m all that and a bag of chips, but I do have the back­ground to know what I’m talk­ing about. I’m not a geek wiz­ard with HTML and scripts. I’ve taught myself what I do know and when I’m stuck I have sev­eral books to refer to, most of them are gath­er­ing dust bun­nies on my book shelves. I like to learn by doing, mak­ing mis­takes and get­ting messy.

The Word Grrls blog has cre­ative writ­ing exer­cises, prompts, tips, ideas, inspi­ra­tion and infor­ma­tion for peo­ple who write and pub­lish on the web. It’s not per­fect. Word Grrls is writ­ten by me (Laura) thus it is some­times wise, some­times opin­ion­ated, some­times eccen­tric, some­times proven wrong but still sin­cere in want­ing to give back to peo­ple and share what I have dis­cov­ered and explored or just found by mis­take. If some­thing helps you, leave a com­ment. Let me know.

Word Grrls includes pro­fes­sional writ­ers, cre­ative writ­ers, hobby writ­ers, niche writ­ers and per­sonal jour­nal writ­ers. Every­one can use some extra insight, inspi­ra­tion and the odd laugh. In the end, we are all a part of the web and every­thing we cre­ate as indi­vid­u­als rep­re­sents the whole.

Word Grrls are those dar­ing young women and their typ­ing machines.

I gave Word­Gr­rls a Twit­ter account but I have not started using it yet. One of those good ideas at the time that you sel­dom have time to do much about.

Tagged as: creative writing, writing exercises, writing prompts