Getting the right words down on paper can sometimes be difficult.
“I’m trying to write a story that really appeals to me and haunts me,” Patrick Hall said at the start of the narrative for non-beginners workshop at the Moose Jaw Public Library on Thursday.
The event kicked off the Saskatchewan Festival of Words, which is happening in the city until Sunday as a celebration of reading and writing.
The workshop was held by Canadian author Jack Hodgins, an award-winning writer living on Vancouver Island.
He is best known for his novels The Invention of the World and The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne.
Hall said he attended the workshop for some much needed help in writing his story.
He said he has all the ideas but it’s hard to have the confidence to write them down.
“I have abandoned it and taken it up and abandoned it and taken it up several times,” he said.
“It’s a lack of confidence in the plot which is sort of feeling it’s not good enough.”
Hall said now he has started writing, it has made him a better reader.
“You do not really understand how difficult it is until you have tried it so I’m trying to find out what the tricks are (at the workshop).
“I have lots of ideas but sometimes the problem is you have too many and should just simplify,” he said.
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