Writing
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Coffee?
I was quite excited with the news that WildBird on the Fly's First Friday contest was being revived. It combines two of my passions, birds and writing. More than that I find that trying to write a 500 word story, within the constraints of the contest, an excellent exercise for building my writing skills. I've
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Winter of our discontent
I'm bereft of any ideas at the moment. I'm staring out at winter entrenching itself for a long stay, howling winds and blowing snow, my mind drifts from topic to topic but they swirl away and I find myself uninspired. So, there's nothing here this morning, but all is not lost. If you don't regularly
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Verbal Medicine
One of the things I did when I recently revamped my sidebar and separated the northern blog roll into feeds for each of the territories (and others) was to search out some more NWT blogs. I am very glad I did, for I discovered the wonderful story telling of Gregory Turnbull's Verbal Medicine. The man
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Once upon a midnight dreary
The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe's incredible poem was first published on today's date, one hundred and sixty-four years ago. Poe still rocks. Really. Take some time today and read some of his works. Might I recommend The Tell-Tale Heart, or A Cask of Amontillado.
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Our Story – Aboriginal writing challenge
The Dominion Institute, an organization whose mission is "to build active and informed citizens through greater knowledge and appreciation of the Canadian story", has many projects that seek to build on pride in our stories, our history, and our accomplishments. One of the those projects, Our Story, seeks to engage aboriginal youth in writing about
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The blog ate my homework
One of my favourite thinkers on the web, Dave Bonta, has a blog, Via Negativa, that continually astounds me. That he visits regularly and occasionally includes one of my posts in his Smorgasblog both amazes me, and makes me want to puff out my chest just a little further. Via Negativa just turned five, which
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Every journey…
I received some good news on the writing front yesterday. A production company is actually reading my screenplay. I had sent out the screenplay or query letters in January this year to a small group of production companies and agents. I wish I hadn't, as I've since learned a lot about proper formatting and have
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Not ready for Hollywood yet…
Townie Bastard is one of my daily reads, and he recently posted on his attempt to write his first novel. Or rather on the frustration of discovering that what you thought was pretty good, still needs work. I can relate. For the most part I quite like my screenplay, and in general it's been pretty
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With a wimper
There are a few blogs on my sidebar, whose authors… well they make me feel a might thick. I don’t mean that in a bad way, in fact I enjoy the blogs very much, and I enjoy the mental calisthenics that my mind has to go through sometimes when I’m reading them. Larry, Dave and
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Does this mean I can add “Award winning journalist” to my resume?
I just found out that the articles I wrote for The Roblin Review on my trip to Vimy for the 90th anniversary of the battle was named Best Feature Article by the Manitoba Community Newspaper Association. Now my cousin Lindsay Kines isn’t the only award winning journalist in the family. Oh sure he won awards for