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Category Archives: Writing
A Stormy Day with the Mad Trapper
The storm the radio had been threatening me with came last night. It began yesterday afternoon, but when I woke this morning there was at least seven inches of snow on the ground, which means travel is slightly more difficult. … Continue reading
Posted in Police, Solitude, The Cabin, The Land, Writing
Tagged Alone in the Wild, Cabin, cabin in the forest, Mad Trapper, Naked in the Road, Richardson Mountains Crossing, Writing
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The Palimpsest that is Our Lives
I was listening to the radio today before I got out of bed and it was one of those days of poor reception. I was tuned to CBC in the foreground of the transmission, while in the background, for all … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Journaling, Literary Theory, Supernatural, Superstition, The Cabin, The Land, Writing
Tagged Alone in the Wild, Cabin, cabin in the forest, Journaling, Palimpsest, Religion, Writing
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News From Beyond the Cabin
I was up late last night, listening to some music on my mp3 player and feeding the fire. It was chilly by comparison, and when I checked the water barrel I have outside, it had a centimeter of ice on … Continue reading
Posted in News, News of the World, The Cabin, The Land, Writing
Tagged Alone in the Wild, Cabin, cabin in the forest, Christmas, Harper, Pakistani Shooting, Radio News, Russian Ruble, Students
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Settling into the Cabin
Today seemed to breeze past. I woke four or five times in the night to put wood on the fire; the last time was likely around seven or eight in the morning when I built up the fire, went back … Continue reading
Posted in Journaling, The Cabin, The Land, Writing
Tagged Alone in the Wild, Blind Fish, Cabin, cabin in the forest, Canoeing the St John River, In Light of Ray, Journaling, Posthuman, The Whimsey, Working After the Collapse, Writing
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Writing and Editing in the Woods
I must be getting used to waking at night to feed the fire, for it is automatic enough now that I cannot count the next day how many times I rose in the night. Last night I had a fire … Continue reading
Posted in The Cabin, The Land, Writing
Tagged Alone in the Wild, Cabin, cabin in the forest, Cooking, Writing
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First Night in the Cabin
I guess last night was my first night in the cabin alone in the winter, if we disregard that frantic time in November when I was building the shack quickly enough that I could sleep in it instead of my … Continue reading
Posted in The Cabin, The Land, Writing
Tagged Alone in the Wild, Coming Home to Newfoundland, Editing, Winter in the Woods
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What Do You Do for Fun?
One of my students asked me what I did with my time and he was at first aghast and then dismayed at my response. In the beginning I didn’t know he was asking about leisure time, so I described marking … Continue reading
The Word
When I was young I thought a single word could change everything. As I grew older I thought I needed to instead depend on collections of words, and hoped that by their jostling Brownian randomness they would somehow settle into … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Theory, Literature, Writing
Tagged Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, Leonard Cohen, Signified, Signifier
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Writing the Police
I sometimes imagine telling the story of a cop in a police state. I think about what goes on in their head, whether they are merely following orders, like the Nazi underlings claimed at Nuremberg, or whether they are so … Continue reading
Posted in News, Police, Writing
Tagged Arrogant Worms, Cops, George Zimmerman, Last Saskatchewan Pirate, Mountie Bob, Nazi, Nuremberg defense, Occupy movement, Police, Police Brutality, Salty Bob, Trayvon Martin
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November is Novel Writing Month, Not Short Story Writing Month
As many of you know, November is the month that many people around the world put away the procrastination and pick up the pen, or more likely keyboard, to expand a late night idea into a novel. The challenge is … Continue reading
Posted in Code World, Writing
Tagged Avatar, Code World, Hackers, NaNoWriMo, Virtual Reality
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