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It's 1:42 a.m. You're finally finished replying to e-mails.You settle down to continue that novel that you've been writing for, what, six, seven years now? But now you have a headache. The faucet is dripping and you can't concentrate. You eye the "To File" pile of papers on your desk and figure it wont hurt to make the stack smaller. By the time you're finished, it's pushing 3 a.m. and you didn't write a single line. Exhausted and irritated, you trudge to your room and tumble into bed next to your snoring partner, who can't fathom why you try writing in the wee hours of the morning.

Monday

We bet few of you have been to the Toronto Archives. We didn’t even know where it was until last night, when we attended theToronto Book Awards. But stepping into the foyer to be greeted by a room covered in photos and maps of our city’s history, it struck us at just how fitting it is to hold the ceremony here -- books honoured for their fluent portraits of Toronto stories in a building that houses the same.

Yorkville is renowned for its high proportion of fancy ladies with small dogs inside of expensive handbags and men in designer pinstripe suits driving oversized vehicles down narrow streets. Although you may not visit frou-frouland frequently, the new Toronto Writers' Centre (TWC) at 101 Yorkville Ave. could make a trek to the area worthwhile. Ex-lawyer and novelist Mitch Kowalski is the brains behind Canada’s first writing centre, which he modeled after similar writing centres in New York City.