Monique Chénier – Author in Evolution
It's time to step out of the tradition of catastrophe and reimagine the world.
This excerpt comes from a series of chapters I wrote during Labour Day Weekend 2020 as part of The 3-Day Novel Contest. It was inspired by a few friends who proposed I write about a group of women living in a forest and suggested titles like The Hidden Resilience of Women and A Journey Worth … Continue reading The Elora Sky Sanctuary
At some point between its release date of April 17, 2020, and the following September, I watched Bali: Sharma Springs, an episode from Apple TV’s documentary series Home. I know this, because it inspired the setting of a series of novel chapters I wrote over the Labour Day long weekend of the same year. During … Continue reading How Bali’s Sharma Springs Inspired My Eco-Fiction Novel
I could tell you that my recent decision to read as many books about trees as possible is solely based on the fact that I’m conducting research for my latest novel. That would certainly be a reasonable argument, since my book is about a 22-year-old woman whose dream is to reforest the world. To help … Continue reading Discovering Trees: A Year of Reading for Reforestation
I think we are most ourselves when we float along the stream of life in a state of non-doing, in a state of allowing, of not trying to control the outcome of anything and with no destination in mind other than a gentle idea of how we want to feel when we arrive. I know I … Continue reading We Are. Here.
Monique Chénier - Author in Evolution 