Melanie Murray is the author of For Your
Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier, which follows her family
as they try to make sense of their profound loss after her nephew, Jeff, is
killed on a road in Afghanistan. Quill and Quire says of her book,
"Murray's powerful work contains the emotional resonance currently lacking
in much of the writing about our involvement in the Afghan conflict..."
Melanie lives in Kelowna and teaches at Okanagan College. You can read more about Melanie here. Below, she describes
her productive place to write.
My writer’s haven for six weeks every summer is a
small cottage on the Northumberland Strait. I write at a table in the screened-in
front porch overlooking the water. It’s quiet, but for the ever-changing symphony
of wind rustling through saltwater maples, waves rushing on the rocky shore, and
seagulls screeching over the blue-grey sea. My days are planned around the time
of the low tide when I can walk the wide sandbar that stretches for a kilometre
to McInnis’s Point. These solitary strolls in the sun, wind and rain are my
meditation and inspiration. As if borne
in on the waves themselves, ideas surface, images appear, sentences take shape.
And I can’t wait to get back and write them down.
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