Tag: storytelling
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projects end, projects begin
After six months of researching, interviewing, writing a first draft, and editing, along with compiling time logs and budget charts, my Arts, Culture, and Heritage Fund final report has been submitted. I feel a lot of things: relief, contentment, a sense of clearness. I feel okay about putting the manuscript* to the side for now…
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it’s a major award!
I’m not the kind of person who wins things. I think I won a raffle once when I was a kid for this giant Easter egg cake. My Dad and I wrote a simple melody on the piano when I was five, and I won a trophy for that. But as the years wore on,…
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reading at the library
I’m a huge fan of libraries. Libraries are essential public spaces where people can meet in a safe community and pursue their interests through library programs, reading groups, or just by browsing the shelves. So it was really cool to be part of a reading event at the Tecumseh Library a couple of weekends ago.…
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weird creatures
If you’re ever stuck for animals to include in your fantasy novel, watch some nature documentaries. There are some truly weird creatures in our world. Seriously, who would’ve thought of a cave-dwelling glow worm that makes hanging silken threads to catch prey and then lights up its tail to attract them? Or how about the hilariously elaborate…
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tragic comic
This month, I’m reading Maus by Art Spiegelman (for the third time) and Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien (for the first time). Both are quite different – I mean, one’s a comic book about the Holocaust and one’s Canadian literary fiction about the effects of the Cultural Revolution in China. But there are…
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ocean wonder
P. and I are currently enraptured by ABZÛ, a video game journey through stunning ocean scenes filled with puzzles, myth, and wonder. According to the game’s website, its “name references a concept from the oldest mythologies; it is the combination of the two ancient words AB, meaning ocean, and ZÛ, meaning to know.” Despite its linguistic…
brittni in ink 