(This week’s post delayed until tomorrow)
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Book progress and a new version of storytelling
“Don’t tell me what happens – la la la la la.” “I’m not going to tell you. I’m just organizing the order of events. That’s all I’m saying.” That was my hubby’s response when I talked about the progress of the third book in my trilogy on the weekend. Writing Book 3 – News Flash:
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Falls frenzy over the decades
My parents honeymooned at Niagara Falls. I have a photo of them leaning against the scrolled metal guardrail that covers large sections of the walkways along the falls and gorge, my dad in a dark suit, my mom in a matching skirt and jacket with a pretty blouse, smiling for the camera. Despite all of
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The tradition of pranking and fooling
Amidst all the flap about the total solar eclipse coming up next Monday – since our area in Southern Ontario will lie in the path of the totality and up to a million visitors are expected for the event (many of us local residents will be hiding from the onslaught in our own yards) –
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Let there be wonder
On my television as I write this post, intrepid Sinbad is battling a skeleton raised by the evil sorcerer Sokurah, inside a castle that’s a delightful amalgam of medieval walls, Arabic arches and bottomless stone caverns. There’s a massive green dragon, which, fortunately for Sinbad and the princess he’s to marry, is chained to a
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If someone asked me these questions…
I’m not anywhere near a famous author – maybe some day, but I was just very happy to write my first book and publish it last year – but I thought I’d have fun answering the questions posed to five authors in a recent article I read. Here’s what I’d have responded. “Without summarizing it
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Interesting things people write about
I subscribe to the Public Domain Review newsletter, and I regularly receive tidbits about publications that have recently been released into the Public Domain – i.e. the copyright on the material has passed. I find these tidbits fascinating, especially those from centuries ago. People had different perspectives on life back then, and – ironically in
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Hiatus tidbit: What’s Real?
A brief post, in honour of the famous London Tube map. Such a massive construction, with miles of old tunnels in a very old city smoldering with history and mystery, just fires the imagination. Film and TV producers have had a great deal of fun inventing subways stations that ‘aren’t on the official map’. There
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How a humble subway map became an icon
There’s a dragon approaching. You can feel its hot breath billowing out of the dark, sooty-looking tunnels. Soon it will emerge and devour you. That was my first impression of the subway system in London, England. At its deepest levels, it’s like a medieval labyrinth. As the trains get close to the platforms where riders
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