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As of today I have been approved as a Digital Journalist at DigitalJournal. The emphasis will be on news stories but I don’t plan to turn my back on books. Do me a favour and check it out. DigitalJournal is an international news site, physically based in Toronto, Ontario. I heard about it through a
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Here are a few photos from Word on the Street, 20th anniversary edition, Sunday Sept. 27, 2009. Attendance was good, despite the threat of rain. The lineup to have books signed by Margaret Atwood, stretched from the Al Purdy statue across Queen’s Park. I attended a panel on genre, featuring Kelly Armstrong, Robert Charles Wilson
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I didn’t take many photos at WorldCon. The panel discussions were non-stop. Honestly, I was having too much fun to worry about taking pictures. This panel on new media was packed. Somehow I managed to get an aisle seat, second from the front. I think Neil Gaiman drew the large crowd but I found the
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This progress meter says I should be aiming for 50 000 words to call my manuscript a novel. Online sources say new novelists should aim for 6K, 8K, 9K… WhateverK! An editor told me to aim for 120 000. I don’t know. Finishing is a moving target. You can get your own progress meter at
I couldn’t resist posting this link based entirely on font-name puns and other sillyness: Font Fight.
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It’s interesting to note that many people name childrens’ books as most influential in their lives. Richard Scrimger, author of The Nose From Jupiter talked about writing for children in the Humber College tent. Scrimger reminded us that writing for children is much more likely to influence a life than writing for adults. The best
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This week’s BTT meme question is about plot…If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are
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“The house of fiction has many windows but only two or three doors.” I love this quote, taken from James Wood’s, How Fiction Works. It popped up on my twitterlit widget and reminded me of one of the most the important things in life: point-of-view. I have just finished re-reading Writing the Second Act: Building
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Did you know there’s a site featuring literary tattoos? Painful but interesting: http://www.contrariwise.org/. I think something around tattoos would make a good “Booking Through Thursday” topic. I have a high school friend coming to stay with me from Montreal so I don’t know how much reading I’ll do this week. Writing the school play can
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