Writing Archives
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Video Creative
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Creativity and Working Around Ablest Language
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On Writing and 2022
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Chris Boucher (1943-2022)
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Remembering Mike Filey
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Video Essays
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Space Colonies Group Chat, 2151 CE
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Launching this September: The Night Girl
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Red Maple Nomination
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Books 49, 50, 51, and 52
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Ups and Downs
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I'm getting tired of still having to deal with this crud...
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The Return of Amazing Stories
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Hanging Out With the Dream King
The Dream King's Daughter Becomes My Sixth Published Novel
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On the Need for an Integrated Transit Plan
Part 1: Expand the Inter-City Bus Network
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Contemplating Failure, Seven Years Later
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One Year Later
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Remembering When Ontario Was an Oil Power
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Books #43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 48
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The Places Where We Remember
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Good Places to Write in Toronto - The UPStairs Lounge
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Off to Ottawa
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The Anti Cookie Monster
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On the Death of VIA Rail
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On Pockets
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On Ontario's Reinventing the Wheel
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Canada's connection to the past is being degraded
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On Meeting Gordon Korman
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The Curator of Forgotten Things Goes Shopping
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On Kitchener in Bloom
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End the Agreement
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Fixing Fixed Incomes
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Where the Wasps Were
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It's important to stand up for the truth
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The Porcelain Anniversary
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How Stupid People Threaten the World
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Books #39, 40, 41 and 42
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Many, Many Thank Yous
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It's the Little Things that Count...
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The Chastened Society
Or, What is Reverse Steampunk?
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Another Column From the Post...
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Latest Columns
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On Bakka-Phoenix Books and the Life Long Passion
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The Blue Fireman
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The Attack of the Narratives
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Dedication
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Run, Boy, Run!
The Sun Runners Soundtrack
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Smile If You're Riding Minnesota's LRT
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Welcome, Swan Riders!
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Happiness is a Cold Nose
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Of Buses and Streetcars
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Books #36 & 37
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The Writing Life
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Brand Extension
A Short Harry Potter Fan Fic
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Desk Photographs
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Author Photographs
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Things I've Written Lately
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The Guy and the Girl Who Lived...
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Books 33, 34 & 35
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Things I've Written Lately
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Farewell to the Office
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Post #3000
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Smellorama
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Ex Machina, What I'm Writing, and Things
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The Mystery of the Missing Water
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Just Remember that Somebody Had to Consider the Possibilities
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Throne of Scorpions
Erin Bow's The Scorpion Rules Cover Revealed
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My Thoughts on the Plot of Frozen Fever
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The Art of Scorpions
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Thirteen Years Ago Today
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Books 26, 27 and 28
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On a Life Turned Somewhat Upside Down
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Just What Cats Need...
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The Last Two Weeks of Summer
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Assorted Thoughts on a Sunday Morning.
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Ruth Graham is Embarrassed that You Like Young Adult Novels So Much.
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Descendant of the Dinosaurs
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Cue Angry E-mails In 3... 2... 1... Ah, here we go...
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Updates for May
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My Birthday, the Universe and Everything
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby!
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The Curator of Forgotten Things
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Why, Thank You!
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Big and Little
The Time of the Doctor Reviewed
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"Giant Inflatable Santas Unite Neighbourhood's Christmas Spirit"...
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Maple Blossoms, by Vivian
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Power
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Fall Deepens
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Blue Sun, by Vivian Bow
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What I've Been Writing Lately - Fall Equinox Edition
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The Thrill of Embarrassment
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The Beach at the End of the Line
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What I've Been Writing Lately
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An Educational Toy
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This Blog is Not Abandoned
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A Poem
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In the Sun
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Jealousy
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Someone is Watching Me
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Hulk vs. She Hulk
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The Forgotten Tax Number
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The Things that Pop In My Head
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Whither Self-Publishing (and Fan Fiction)
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Six Books Down, Two to Go
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How to Write Four Books in a Month
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News
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Nocturnal Revisions
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Nocturnal Adaptations
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The Waiting Game
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So Big, and Yet So Small
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The Man I Was II
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Echoes and Fingerprints
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And Now For a Little Cross-Promotion
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News You Do Not Want to Print...
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Having breakfast at the corner of King and Dufferin.
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Attack of the Zombie Lego Hordes!
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A Groundhog Day Resolution
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The Ballet Dancer and the Karate Kid
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The Year of Anticipation
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Monday Happenings
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Coffee Communities
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Irons in the Fire
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Reputable Since...?
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Tick Tock Goes The Clock...
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Brevity's Soulful Wit
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An Inspiration For Icarus Down
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Plain Kate Wins the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
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The Parliamentary Trains
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A New Identity
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Erin's Good Week (In Spite of Strep Throat)
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The Names of Things V
When Isaac Became Simon, and Vice Versa
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Contemplating Failure
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Thank You Centennial
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The Seeds of Doom: Doctor Who's Best Thump
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Schadenfreude Pie, Schadenfreude Pie...
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Um... Who's Driving? (The Story, I Mean)
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Why I like Scrivener
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The Other Bow Book Release
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On the Latest Dispatch by Fred "No Fun" Phelps
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I am Supporting Impoverished School Libraries in California
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The Parent Trap
(Why there are so few Parents in YA Literature)
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On Rule 34
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Patricia Wrightson (1921-2010)
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South of Union
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The Best Places to Write in Waterloo Region
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It Was One of Those Mornings...
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Shortcuts to Success
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The Nightmare Queen
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The Best Places to Write in Toronto
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The Year of the Red Jellybean
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Artificial Lightning in Philadelphia
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Vivian Katherine's Fourth Birthday
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The Zombie Handkerchief
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Behind the Scenes in Toronto's Financial District
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How to Write a Book in Ten Days
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Writing Update From Lincoln
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Towards a New Point of View
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"The Dream King's Daughter" and "Plain Kate" Win Major Ontario Arts Council Grants
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The Aftermath of Creativity
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The Geography of Storytelling
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Wrestling with Glorfindel II: Three Makes a Crowd
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Thank you Rockway!
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Quick Hits - February 23
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Mustang Pride
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On Researching Historicals
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Works in Progress
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WAHOO!!!
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What I'm working on...
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Why Does Improving a Story So Often Involve Grievious Bodily Harm to the Characters?
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If I Had a Million Dollars...
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Book Blogger Appreciation Week
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Wrestling With Glorfindel
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Preparing for Eden Mills and The Young City
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Planning Out My Next Few Months
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Terrorism in Toronto's Subway... in 1985
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The Secret Prudes
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Bohemian Renaissance
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Driving Through a Winter Wonderland
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On Political Venom, Part II
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I'll See Your Meme, and Raise You One
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How to Write a Book in 19 Days
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Heading to the OLA Super Conference
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Top Ten Signs You're Reading Something by James Bow
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Carousel
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Sex! In! Spaaaace!
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The War on the Holidays
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A Travelling Man (HA!)
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What's the Word? And What's Next?
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Movable Type 4.0 Reviewed
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A Writer's Interlude
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Mackerel Skies
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Working Madly
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The Baby Pictures Still Exist
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I Have Coldplay in my Pants!
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On the Town of Boone, Iowa
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Bizarre.
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A Question of Anonymity
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Quick Hits - May 25
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Waterloo-Wellington Blogstravaganza Invitation
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I'm Just Talking About Washington, Man!
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What if Steve Jobs was President... or, What if the President was Steve Jobs
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Quick Hits - March 8
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Love Your Characters (or The Unwritten Books: Where Do We Go From Here)
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Portrait in Bubble
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Doctor Who is Back!
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The Night Girl Passes 20,000 Words
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All I Want for Christmas is...
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In Conversation with Kenneth Oppel
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Fairy Tales in Secret
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What the Founding Fathers Were Thinking
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The National To-Do List IV: Electoral Reform.
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Vivian Katherine's First Birthday
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The Night Girl, the Next Morning
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Jorane: The You and the Now
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The State of Waterloo's Economy
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Suddenly, I'm a Blogging Expert
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Driving Airport Road (Mono Road)
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The Kids Are All Right
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Making Water Bloom in the Desert
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Under Construction (and a Meme to Tide Us Over)
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The Unwritten Buzz
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Worth Commenting On
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Toner Memories
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On Canadian Coffee, and the Other Tim's
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Mayday! Mayday! (Quick Hits for May 1st)
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Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)
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Greyfields Illustrated
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Three Restaurants
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Credit to Other Writers
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Erin Reads at the Brantford Armouries
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Writing News
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Four Years of Blogging
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Four on the Floor!
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Smart (Alec) Cards
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Fun Election Tool
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The Missing Placesetting
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In Between Dirty Diapers
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23 + 5 = ?
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Brilliant!
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The Hurricanes Go Greek
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The Poor Woman of the Ikea Parking Lot
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What's the Word?
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Isis of the Check Out Line
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Interesting Tidbits
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More Writing Progress
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You're Welcome
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Remembering Hurricane Juan
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The $1L Gas Problem (Like the Y2K problem, except with gas)
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The Passing of King Fahd
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Canada: The Manual
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Aw, Crap!
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Postcards from the Dead
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Best. Field Trip. Ever.
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Speed Bumps Ahead
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At the CMPA Conference in the Old Mill
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The Barons of Suburbia
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A Toronto Oddity?
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Tim Horton Wins
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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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Writing Update
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A Safe Bet
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April Fools III
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Sitting by a Coffee at the King Charlotte Timothys
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Revelation
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What I'm Working On
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Living on my Writing.
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Irons in the Fire
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Things Are Not Slowing Down, Though They Seem to Be...
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Fads As Only Schools Can Form
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How to Act Like An Opposition Party
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Kent Mansley, I Work For The Government...
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The Day I Went to Sleep
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Workshopping Sealwife
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Things You Don't Expect to See Reported in the Toronto Media
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New Orleans is in Play
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Plot, Subplot, Superplot
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And the Secret Code to Disable the Defence Shield Is... Is... 1-2-3-4-5
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Writing Thoughts
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More Visitations
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Tallying Your Winnings
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Follow Ups
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Answering Google's Questions
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Unfortunate Connotations
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Cool James Koole
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She Needs to Talk
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New Year Resolutionaries
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Fairy Tales in Secret
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Grace (and Writing) Under Pressure
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She Rode Into My Life on a Tricycle
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Most Palestinians are Civilians Too
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Why Proofreading Is Hard
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Nothing Here to Fear
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I Write Like a Girl!
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Writing For Coffee II
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A Character Meme With Audience Participation
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I Like the Sound That Rain Makes
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Writing for Coffee
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The Moment I Realized I'd Left Reality and Was Now a Resident of Cloudcookooland II
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Sitting in the Starbucks of Chapters Waterloo
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In the Food Court of the St. Jacobs Factory Outlet Mall, One Saturday Afternoon
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Sitting in Krispy Kreme, After Stopping at the Bank
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In the Food Court of Kitchener's Market Square, Before the Morning Shift - II
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How Old Are You?
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In the Food Court of Kitchener's Market Square, Before the Morning Shift
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What Do Your Characters Carry?
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An Interesting Literary Award
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Assorted Questions for May Day / Writing and Birthdays
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A Barn Can Have a Horse in it.
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All of Us Were Scared...
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The Joys of Spring / Why Fantasy is Written
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Trenchcoats and Wish Lists / Science Fiction and Fantasy's Clashing Toolkits
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Come With Their Own Toolkit
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April Fools II
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The Sound of Silence
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I Feel Most Like Zeus When...
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The Path of Creation
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Writing Secret #421
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Writing News (Not Mine)
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At Sunset in a Nameless Town
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Building a Universe From Scratch
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The Boundary Between the Beginning and the Middle
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Aftshadowing
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What Makes Toronto a Good City
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Sunday Writing Quiz
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When Metaphors Attack!
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Pringles, Spam and Books
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Place and Mood
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The Purpose of Free Writing
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We Weren't Supposed to Go There
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Friday Five on TV
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My can of Coca-Cola is red.
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Words With Just One Beat
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Thanksgiving in October
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Words on a Friday Afternoon
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Another Letter From the Emperor!
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The Weekend and This Week
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You Want to Write? Read.
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And Now For Our Sponsor... A Talentless Hack
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It's Getting Better All the Time
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Boys of Summer
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Apologies
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Still Writing. Still Cleaning.
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Blogs About Fiction? Meet Fictional Blogs
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Saturday Six
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Toronto Trip and the Trillium Awards
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There's This Book I Haven't Written Yet
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Fiction Saturday
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April Fools!
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Gel Pens
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Writing Longhand
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We've Got Balls
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Dan Kukwa and Writing in Bronte