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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
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- Tags: politics life society Canada writing Observations
Recent Posts
Man, do I need to win one of them literary awards?
Now that the launches are over, and the book stores (the ones I know of) have been supplied with my books and all my friends and relatives have been cajoled, teased and threatened to buy a copy of my latest creation in time for Christmas, how does on...
Deja-vu (After the Flood, the novel vs. 2012, the movie)
I watched the movie 2012 and had a sense of déjà -vu as I left the theatre. Had the movie’s script writers and I met in some dream space and used each other’s plot lines? The destruction of the earth, which takes place in the first fifty pages o...
Experience & Setting
When you live in different places, and later try to write about the experiences you had in them, how much do you paint from the external and how much do you bring from within? Which is the better way? Which conveys a better sense of place? When I com...
Fall – promise fulfilled
Whenever I see the vibrant colours of Fall on the trees: the reds of dogwood, maple, and burning bush, the mixture of neon yellows, hushed browns and luminescent greens in the oak, elm and willow; when I hear the squirrels, birds and chipmunks sudden...
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 ...
