Claudia Casper

is the author of The Reconstruction and The Continuation of Love by Other Means. She currently resides in Vancouver with her husband and her two teenage sons.

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March 2, 2013

Writing Is Like Prospecting - For My Friend Nadine Schuurman

Discussed: 
Nadine Schuurman
geology
writing
CBC
Northrop Frye
friendship

During an interview on CBC radio a geologist expressed that the hardest part of prospecting was maintaining the belief that what you were looking for was out there to be found. In the sleet and mud and cold, out on a limb, repeatedly coming up empty. In this way, writing is like prospecting.