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Metro Writers in Residence. The Writer in Residence program is a joint project, shared by four libraries in the Metro Edmonton area. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Marty Chan – Blog. Marty Chan’s SAPL Workshops & Events: Sep-Dec 2016. Marty Chan – Office Hours. Author Archives: Gail Sobat. The Last Post of 2015. December 28, 2015. I will be doffing this cap as writer in residence officially at 11:59 pm on Thursday, December 31, 2015. 55 Thoughts for English Teachers. I wish you peace...
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Notes from the Perilous Realm: The story continues ... elsewhere
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The story continues . elsewhere. I am sad to say that I am discontinuing this blog on stories and storytelling and moving my web presence to another location. I will still be posting on stories, fantasy and writing from time to time on my new author website, at http:/ thomaswharton.ca/. Thank you to everyone who took the time to read my posts and to comment on them and support what I've been doing. May you have a lifetime of wonderful journeys into the lands of Story. Keep on keepin on. 1 Dragons guard h...
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Notes from the Perilous Realm: A writer's journey
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I wanted to see mountains again, and find somewhere quiet where I could finish my book. So I got on a train. I had never ridden on a passenger train before. Walking the narrow corridors, trying to keep my balance as the train shook and rocked, all I could think of were old movies about spies and femmes fatale. I discovered that other travellers had ridden this train and left their words behind. Destroy all former timetables.". This seemed like pertinent advice. And I saw mountains. Actually, in the fores...
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Notes from the Perilous Realm: Going places
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A day of writing. A whole day of writing. That doesn't happen often. But what is there to blog about a day of writing when it’s gone well? If I'd taken a. Trip somewhere, I could tell you about all the interesting people I'd met and. The places I'd seen. But sitting here all day at my desk, where have I gone? Strange, insubstantial, shifting half-world of language itself. Transferring from one bus to another in the city of sentences, kayaking. The seemingly solid rock of a stubborn paragraph. It's a slow...
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Notes from the Perilous Realm: June 2013
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Eleven things you didn't know about dragons. Eleven Things You Didn’t Know about Dragons. A revised version of a popular post from the past). 1 Dragons guard hoards of treasure not out of greed, but because of the healing and rejuvenating properties of gold. Dragons lying on hoards have been overheard purring. How else do you think they manage to live for hundreds of years? 4 Dragon bone is the hardest substance known to be produced by animal bodies. On the Mohs scale of hardness (in which diamond ra...
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Notes from the Perilous Realm: February 2013
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Instant Pulp: Just Add Water. My writing students found out it was my birthday recently and today in class they presented me with a surprise gift: a book they’d made for me called Instant Pulp: Just Add Water. Subtitled “Ideas for a stopped and stalled creative mind.”. I was very touched. I don’t know where they got the idea that I might be stalled creatively (yeah, my daily writing habit has been a bit sluggish lately but how would they know that…? This truly is a gift. The gentle time machine. I’...
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Notes from the Perilous Realm: March 2013
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Stories are everywhere these days. In science, medicine, art, therapy, politics . all of these fields have recognized the power and the value of both listening to and telling stories. It seems to me that this emphasis on stories as vehicles of learning and understanding can be traced in part to the work of Carl Jung. As he notes in his autobiography, Memory, Dreams, Reflections,. When he first got his start in psychiatry, the standard procedure was to type. The language of Story. My toes at the very edge...
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Notes from the Perilous Realm: May 2013
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One day in my creative writing workshop we were discussing creativity and. The mind. The main point I wanted to make was that the mind is a wonderful. Tool but elusive and fickle. The mind doesn't like to be coerced into. Being creative on demand. When a problem comes up in writing, a writer has. To learn to trust that the mind is working on an answer even when we're. Not consciously trying. Those wonderful ideas that seem to come out of. Of their way and let them do their job. Okay, I said, expecting sh...
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Notes from the Perilous Realm: April 2013
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Sauron's map of Middle-Earth. I've been reading The Lord of the Rings. To my son, and the other day we were speculating on the question, what if Frodo had failed? What if Sauron had regained the ring? We looked at the map of Middle-Earth in the book, and one of my first thoughts was, imagine how different this map would look if evil had been victorious? It occurred to me that Sauron, or at least his generals and commanders, must have maps of Middle-Earth, too. What do their maps look like? I posted a whi...
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