The scenes came to me
Bit by bit, the scenes came to me. After I closed down my ancestry account with over 500 family photos and about 25,000 entries, I… Read More »The scenes came to me
Bit by bit, the scenes came to me. After I closed down my ancestry account with over 500 family photos and about 25,000 entries, I… Read More »The scenes came to me
I wanted to do more than document the journey. I needed to highlight the likely events and places that most farm-raised men might have read… Read More »What would I write about?
Having two brothers who married two sisters wasn’t in and of itself the motivation for writing my novel, the long shot – there was more… Read More »But that wasn’t all my motivation
Not too difficult a question to answer. My grandfather had a great respect for his home, his animals and the land. His generation accepted great challenges… Read More »Why would I write this story?
This one is really simply. From 1907 to 1910 Joyce’s grandfather, Raoul Poulin traveled to the Yukon where he worked for men who owned gold… Read More »When would my story take place?
Good question. Well I had to place my people in a given month / year, so to do this, I mapped out a January 1,… Read More »How did my writing begin?
I had traveled to southern Quebec in search of that mysterious tidbit that would lift my research up to a level of mouth-watering excitement. It… Read More »Researching at the Yukon Archives in Whitehorse, Yukon