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Shane Joseph's Blog - some of my thoughts
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My observations on writing and life in Canada
- Author: Shane Joseph
- Listed in: Non-Fiction Beliefs & Causes
- Tags: politics life society Canada writing Observations
Recent Posts
Hammered by the Blockbuster?
I was doing my writer’s math again this week. It’s pretty basic – debits and credits – mainly debits, as we don’t get a lot of royalties and the bills are still, well, the bills – they don’t go away. Some statistics lay in front of me: ...
Having a Latte and toasting the old times
I was with my old buddy Jake down at the Rivoli in Toronto and we were celebrating with bowls of latte. We were about to launch our novels together. We are in that fast increasing population of salt ‘n’ pepper-haired workers who have enough life ...
Doomsday Merchants
A dystopian novel of hopeEveryone, including myself with the release of my book After the Flood, is on the doomsday wagon. The warming climate is fertile ground for flights of the imagination, predictions stemming from depressed minds, and expression...
Voting – a forgotten civic duty?
The Opposition had finally got its act together it seemed and was going to make a fall election happen – not! The timing was apparently not right – again! I wonder what the real holdback was this time? Courage? Or anticipated low voter turnout? ...
The invasion of our libraries – Fahrenheit 451 all over?
When I read the article about how an online retailer deleted a controversial book from its buyer’s e-book readers, without their knowledge, it shocked the hell out of me. Ironically, I was in the middle of reading Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenhei...
Life’s a Stage, with a six-act play
Shakespeare had seven stages of life, but I have settled for six acts on one stage… The First Act - Innocence– You are running free as a child, with images of past lives and guardian angels vivid in your mind; the imagination free, the strong...
