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Tag Archives: On Writing
A Lament for the Loss of Young Teachers (A Feature Friday Post from the Vault)
I am doing work in the statistical analysis division of our labour market research unit in government. Of course, I am. After all, I’m doing a PhD in fantasy literature. I wrote this piece a couple of years ago, where … Continue reading
Infodump and Identification: Thinking about Fantastic First Pages with Anne McCaffrey
I’m having trouble getting into the (sort of) second Dragonriders of Pern book, Dragonquest. I loved Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonsong, caught up by the protagonist’s heartsore struggle to express her creativity in a world of martial law. In dire threat of the biological terror of … Continue reading
Posted in Fictional Worlds, On Writing, Thoughtful Essays
Tagged Anne McCaffrey, Dragon Riders of Pern, Dragonflight, Dragonquest, Dragonsong, fantasy, feminism, Harry Potter, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Atwood, Middle Earth, Narnia, On Writing, Science Fiction, Suzy McKee Charnas, The Divine Comedy, Ursula K. Le Guin, writing
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Sad Peninsula by Mark Sampson
My mother was a voracious reader. I remember watching her as she read on the couch or a deck chair, slowly turning the leaves as if she was counting the pages rather than gobbling up hundreds of words at a … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Canadian literature, Japan, Korea, Mark Sampson, On Writing, Sad Peninsula, Stephen King, writing, WWII
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Stephen King and the Genre of Genius
This year for my Stickin’ Huge Awesome Novel Winter Awesome Read (SHANWAR), I chose Stephen King’s The Stand (1978) I have never read it before and I don’t think I have ever had a conversation with someone about it. Still, … Continue reading
Fun With Stats 1: Lessons on Growth from 5 Years of Blogging
One of the critical advantages of WordPress is that it offers the blogger tools for calculating their impact. It is also one of its critical weaknesses as the analytics are limited to daily visitor and hit counts, as well as … Continue reading
Murder in the Morning
Crows mock the coming of the day heckling every suggestion of light filling every inch of naked twig on bare poplar flung dangerously to the sky and on leafless maples which in summer or fall are watercolour forms of things children … Continue reading
Posted in On Writing, Reflections
Tagged Charlottetown, crows, On Writing, Poetry, Prince Edward Island, research, writing
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Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions, with the Right Question Institute
After a teaching foundations course (theory), my first college course in teacher prep was “Teaching Methods.” Ever since, I have loved the diversity of ways that we can draw a group of people to a moment of discovery. I am … Continue reading
