Learning to Write for Children This pic gives a late summer view from University Avenue. I wanted to take a picture before the trees lose their leaves and the flowers get frosted. North of Toronto, the colors are already out. Time always rushes through fall, as if the sky is anxious to blanket us in […]
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Excuse the mess. I’m working on importing previous blogs and updating this site to be of use to Teachers, Librarians and other educators.
Update: I recently received my contributor’s copy of Urban Green Man, including a green man pendant as an extra thank-you. How nice to have a souvenir from my first poetry sale! This summer I’m taking a break from blogging and critiquing in order to finish the new draft of my work-in-progress, “Spies are from Mars.” As of today I
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I haven’t blogged much lately but I do have some good news. One of my poems was shortlisted for the annual Science Fiction Poetry Association Contest. My name appears after the winners here. I also have a piece shortlisted for inclusion in a fantasy fiction anthology which I can’t mention by name until I know
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When the leaves change colours, I feel like going for walks to hear the crunch underfoot and wind up being inspired by all that natural beauty. Fall is the perfect time to spend evenings and early mornings curled up with a coffee to read or to write. I’m having a busy season. This Sunday my
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I managed to write regularly over the last nine days despite parties, kids, singing, dancing, drinking, swimming, video taping a crazy family horror spoof and generally having a great time at the cottage. My rough goal was to write a 80 000 word manuscript but I’ve reached “the end” of the rough draft in under
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I attended Ad Astra for the second time this year. ChiZine had a book launch there and I got an autographed copy of Chimerascope by Douglas Smith. He’s a friend of a friend but it was the excerpt he read which convinced me to buy it. So far, it’s a very interesting read. That’s why
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It has been an eventful week. My computer died and I have been spending many sleepless hours figuring out how to do things on a Mac Book Pro that I took for granted on my PC. It was old and used and when it died, I was so glad to receive a ‘spare,’ computer from
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“We can’t rewrite politics, but we can tame it, making a new puzzle out of the same pieces,” Jean-Guy Legault. Théâtre Extrême invites the audience into the back rooms of politics where powerful people are made… Opinion: French director experiments on Toronto audience (Includes first-hand account) Posted using ShareThis
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