"Know your strengths and weaknesses as a writer. Use your strengths to advantage but don't become dependent on them. As a genre writer, plot and story come easily while character development requires attention. I use writing exercises, experience journals and sensual stimuli (photos, music, food, travel) to strengthen areas of my writing such as narrative description or to find new ways to express characters. Every writer is different — but we all need a variety of tools to craft our work."

Hayden Trenholm's stories have appeared in On Spec, TransVersions, Neo-Opsis, Challenging Destiny, Talebones, Gaslight Grotesque and on CBC Radio. In 2008, he won the Canadian Science Fiction Aurora Award for Like Water in the Desert. He is currently working on 49th Parallels: Alternative Canadian Histories and Futures to be published in fall 2017.