Bow. James Bow.: Writing Archives

April 11, 2013
A Poem
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April 7, 2013
In the Sun
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March 10, 2013
Jealousy
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March 8, 2013
Someone is Watching Me
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February 3, 2013
Hulk vs. She Hulk
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December 8, 2012
The Forgotten Tax Number
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October 25, 2012
The Things that Pop In My Head
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October 17, 2012
Whither Self-Publishing (and Fan Fiction)
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October 9, 2012
Six Books Down, Two to Go
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August 20, 2012
How to Write Four Books in a Month
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July 12, 2012
News
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July 10, 2012
Nocturnal Revisions
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June 28, 2012
Nocturnal Adaptations
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June 12, 2012
The Waiting Game
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April 23, 2012
So Big, and Yet So Small
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April 19, 2012
The Man I Was II
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April 10, 2012
Echoes and Fingerprints
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February 23, 2012
And Now For a Little Cross-Promotion
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February 21, 2012
News You Do Not Want to Print...
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February 20, 2012
Having breakfast at the corner of King and Dufferin.
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February 3, 2012
Attack of the Zombie Lego Hordes!
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February 2, 2012
A Groundhog Day Resolution
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January 20, 2012
The Ballet Dancer and the Karate Kid
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December 31, 2011
The Year of Anticipation
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December 12, 2011
Monday Happenings
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December 2, 2011
Coffee Communities
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November 27, 2011
Irons in the Fire
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November 22, 2011
Reputable Since...?
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November 12, 2011
Tick Tock Goes The Clock...
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November 4, 2011
Brevity's Soulful Wit
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October 22, 2011
An Inspiration For Icarus Down
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October 5, 2011
Plain Kate Wins the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
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July 7, 2011
The Parliamentary Trains
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June 29, 2011
A New Identity
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June 26, 2011
Erin's Good Week (In Spite of Strep Throat)
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March 16, 2011
The Names of Things V
When Isaac Became Simon, and Vice Versa
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January 21, 2011
Contemplating Failure
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November 18, 2010
Thank You Centennial
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November 9, 2010
The Seeds of Doom: Doctor Who's Best Thump
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November 4, 2010
Schadenfreude Pie, Schadenfreude Pie...
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October 27, 2010
Um... Who's Driving? (The Story, I Mean)
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October 17, 2010
Why I like Scrivener
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August 31, 2010
The Other Bow Book Release
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July 23, 2010
On the Latest Dispatch by Fred "No Fun" Phelps
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July 19, 2010
I am Supporting Impoverished School Libraries in California
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July 13, 2010
The Parent Trap
(Why there are so few Parents in YA Literature)
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June 15, 2010
On Rule 34
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April 8, 2010
Patricia Wrightson (1921-2010)
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April 7, 2010
South of Union
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April 1, 2010
The Best Places to Write in Waterloo Region
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February 24, 2010
It Was One of Those Mornings...
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February 22, 2010
Shortcuts to Success
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February 17, 2010
The Nightmare Queen
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February 6, 2010
The Best Places to Write in Toronto
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January 1, 2010
The Year of the Red Jellybean
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November 27, 2009
Artificial Lightning in Philadelphia
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November 6, 2009
Vivian Katherine's Fourth Birthday
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September 28, 2009
The Zombie Handkerchief
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September 18, 2009
Behind the Scenes in Toronto's Financial District
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August 18, 2009
How to Write a Book in Ten Days
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July 27, 2009
Writing Update From Lincoln
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July 24, 2009
Towards a New Point of View
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June 24, 2009
"The Dream King's Daughter" and "Plain Kate" Win Major Ontario Arts Council Grants
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June 13, 2009
The Aftermath of Creativity
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May 19, 2009
The Geography of Storytelling
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May 11, 2009
Wrestling with Glorfindel II: Three Makes a Crowd
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May 6, 2009
Thank you Rockway!
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February 23, 2009
Quick Hits - February 23
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February 19, 2009
Mustang Pride
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February 12, 2009
On Researching Historicals
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February 5, 2009
Works in Progress
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November 11, 2008
WAHOO!!!
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November 1, 2008
What I'm working on...
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October 30, 2008
Why Does Improving a Story So Often Involve Grievious Bodily Harm to the Characters?
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September 25, 2008
If I Had a Million Dollars...
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September 15, 2008
Book Blogger Appreciation Week
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September 10, 2008
Wrestling With Glorfindel
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August 16, 2008
Preparing for Eden Mills and The Young City
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May 24, 2008
Planning Out My Next Few Months
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May 21, 2008
Terrorism in Toronto's Subway... in 1985
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April 4, 2008
The Secret Prudes
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March 11, 2008
Bohemian Renaissance
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March 8, 2008
Driving Through a Winter Wonderland
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March 4, 2008
On Political Venom, Part II
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February 26, 2008
I'll See Your Meme, and Raise You One
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February 18, 2008
How to Write a Book in 19 Days
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February 1, 2008
Heading to the OLA Super Conference
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January 10, 2008
Top Ten Signs You're Reading Something by James Bow
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December 30, 2007
Carousel
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December 20, 2007
Sex! In! Spaaaace!
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November 29, 2007
The War on the Holidays
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October 15, 2007
A Travelling Man (HA!)
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October 2, 2007
What's the Word? And What's Next?
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September 16, 2007
Movable Type 4.0 Reviewed
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August 24, 2007
A Writer's Interlude
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August 13, 2007
Mackerel Skies
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August 3, 2007
Working Madly
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July 27, 2007
The Baby Pictures Still Exist
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July 6, 2007
I Have Coldplay in my Pants!
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July 2, 2007
On the Town of Boone, Iowa
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June 13, 2007
Bizarre.
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May 29, 2007
A Question of Anonymity
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May 25, 2007
Quick Hits - May 25
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May 24, 2007
Waterloo-Wellington Blogstravaganza Invitation
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March 31, 2007
I'm Just Talking About Washington, Man!
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March 15, 2007
What if Steve Jobs was President... or, What if the President was Steve Jobs
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March 8, 2007
Quick Hits - March 8
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March 3, 2007
Love Your Characters (or The Unwritten Books: Where Do We Go From Here)
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January 17, 2007
Portrait in Bubble
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January 15, 2007
Doctor Who is Back!
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January 12, 2007
The Night Girl Passes 20,000 Words
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December 24, 2006
All I Want for Christmas is...
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November 26, 2006
In Conversation with Kenneth Oppel
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November 24, 2006
Fairy Tales in Secret
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November 17, 2006
What the Founding Fathers Were Thinking
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November 15, 2006
The National To-Do List IV: Electoral Reform.
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November 2, 2006
Vivian Katherine's First Birthday
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October 28, 2006
The Night Girl, the Next Morning
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October 9, 2006
Jorane: The You and the Now
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October 2, 2006
The State of Waterloo's Economy
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September 25, 2006
Suddenly, I'm a Blogging Expert
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September 12, 2006
Driving Airport Road (Mono Road)
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September 9, 2006
The Kids Are All Right
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September 1, 2006
Making Water Bloom in the Desert
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July 20, 2006
Under Construction (and a Meme to Tide Us Over)
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June 17, 2006
The Unwritten Buzz
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June 16, 2006
Worth Commenting On
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June 14, 2006
Toner Memories
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June 12, 2006
On Canadian Coffee, and the Other Tim's
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May 1, 2006
Mayday! Mayday! (Quick Hits for May 1st)
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April 25, 2006
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)
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April 13, 2006
Greyfields Illustrated
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April 9, 2006
Three Restaurants
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April 6, 2006
Credit to Other Writers
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April 1, 2006
Erin Reads at the Brantford Armouries
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March 22, 2006
Writing News
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February 13, 2006
Four Years of Blogging
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February 7, 2006
Four on the Floor!
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December 8, 2005
Smart (Alec) Cards
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December 1, 2005
Fun Election Tool
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November 24, 2005
The Missing Placesetting
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November 20, 2005
In Between Dirty Diapers
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November 12, 2005
23 + 5 = ?
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November 10, 2005
Brilliant!
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October 29, 2005
The Hurricanes Go Greek
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October 1, 2005
The Poor Woman of the Ikea Parking Lot
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September 29, 2005
What's the Word?
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September 26, 2005
Isis of the Check Out Line
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September 23, 2005
Interesting Tidbits
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September 15, 2005
More Writing Progress
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September 12, 2005
You're Welcome
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September 3, 2005
Remembering Hurricane Juan
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August 17, 2005
The $1L Gas Problem (Like the Y2K problem, except with gas)
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August 1, 2005
The Passing of King Fahd
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July 27, 2005
Canada: The Manual
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July 24, 2005
Aw, Crap!
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July 20, 2005
Postcards from the Dead
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July 2, 2005
Best. Field Trip. Ever.
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June 13, 2005
Speed Bumps Ahead
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June 8, 2005
At the CMPA Conference in the Old Mill
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May 28, 2005
The Barons of Suburbia
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May 26, 2005
A Toronto Oddity?
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May 23, 2005
Tim Horton Wins
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May 10, 2005
Ideas that come in the night that, in the cold light of day, make you glad you don't own a juicer:
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April 30, 2005
Writing Update
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April 12, 2005
A Safe Bet
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April 2, 2005
April Fools III
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March 25, 2005
Sitting by a Coffee at the King Charlotte Timothys
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March 22, 2005
Revelation
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February 22, 2005
What I'm Working On
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January 25, 2005
Living on my Writing.
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January 19, 2005
Irons in the Fire
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January 14, 2005
Things Are Not Slowing Down, Though They Seem to Be...
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November 25, 2004
Fads As Only Schools Can Form
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November 14, 2004
How to Act Like An Opposition Party
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October 29, 2004
Kent Mansley, I Work For The Government...
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October 25, 2004
The Day I Went to Sleep
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October 8, 2004
Workshopping Sealwife
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September 17, 2004
Things You Don't Expect to See Reported in the Toronto Media
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September 13, 2004
New Orleans is in Play
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September 1, 2004
Plot, Subplot, Superplot
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August 29, 2004
And the Secret Code to Disable the Defence Shield Is... Is... 1-2-3-4-5
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July 21, 2004
Writing Thoughts
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July 8, 2004
More Visitations
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June 23, 2004
Tallying Your Winnings
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May 30, 2004
Follow Ups
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May 24, 2004
Answering Google's Questions
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April 1, 2004
Unfortunate Connotations
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March 26, 2004
Cool James Koole
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March 8, 2004
She Needs to Talk
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January 5, 2004
New Year Resolutionaries
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November 26, 2003
Fairy Tales in Secret
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November 2, 2003
Grace (and Writing) Under Pressure
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October 16, 2003
She Rode Into My Life on a Tricycle
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September 26, 2003
Most Palestinians are Civilians Too
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September 17, 2003
Why Proofreading Is Hard
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September 10, 2003
Nothing Here to Fear
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September 3, 2003
I Write Like a Girl!
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August 10, 2003
Writing For Coffee II
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August 2, 2003
A Character Meme With Audience Participation
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August 2, 2003
I Like the Sound That Rain Makes
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July 28, 2003
Writing for Coffee
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July 11, 2003
The Moment I Realized I'd Left Reality and Was Now a Resident of Cloudcookooland II
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July 8, 2003
Sitting in the Starbucks of Chapters Waterloo
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June 23, 2003
In the Food Court of the St. Jacobs Factory Outlet Mall, One Saturday Afternoon
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June 18, 2003
Sitting in Krispy Kreme, After Stopping at the Bank
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June 11, 2003
In the Food Court of Kitchener's Market Square, Before the Morning Shift - II
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June 4, 2003
How Old Are You?
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June 3, 2003
In the Food Court of Kitchener's Market Square, Before the Morning Shift
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May 26, 2003
What Do Your Characters Carry?
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May 16, 2003
An Interesting Literary Award
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May 1, 2003
Assorted Questions for May Day / Writing and Birthdays
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April 23, 2003
A Barn Can Have a Horse in it.
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April 17, 2003
All of Us Were Scared...
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April 13, 2003
The Joys of Spring / Why Fantasy is Written
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April 11, 2003
Trenchcoats and Wish Lists / Science Fiction and Fantasy's Clashing Toolkits
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April 6, 2003
Science Fiction and Fantasy Come With Their Own Toolkit
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April 1, 2003
April Fools II
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March 15, 2003
The Sound of Silence
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March 10, 2003
I Feel Most Like Zeus When...
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March 4, 2003
The Path of Creation
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February 18, 2003
Writing Secret #421
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February 15, 2003
Writing News (Not Mine)
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January 23, 2003
At Sunset in a Nameless Town
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January 22, 2003
Building a Universe From Scratch
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January 18, 2003
The Boundary Between the Beginning and the Middle
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January 14, 2003
Aftshadowing
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December 30, 2002
What Makes Toronto a Good City
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November 17, 2002
Sunday Writing Quiz
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November 14, 2002
When Metaphors Attack!
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November 4, 2002
Pringles, Spam and Books
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October 29, 2002
Place and Mood
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October 24, 2002
The Purpose of Free Writing
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October 23, 2002
We Weren't Supposed to Go There
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October 18, 2002
Friday Five on TV
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October 17, 2002
My can of Coca-Cola is red.
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October 16, 2002
Words With Just One Beat
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October 13, 2002
Thanksgiving in October
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October 11, 2002
Words on a Friday Afternoon
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October 2, 2002
Another Letter From the Emperor!
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September 30, 2002
The Weekend and This Week
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September 23, 2002
You Want to Write? Read.
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September 18, 2002
And Now For Our Sponsor... A Talentless Hack
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