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Dead air?
The phone summoned. Angrily, it sounded to him. GLORIA HOPE, the screen informed him in glaring Helvetica. Buddy watched it in the palm of his hand, felt its panic. Couldn’t cope in that instant. So he let its plea go unanswered, until it lay silent, a useless piece of technology, a complicated instrument that would…
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Charting future history through the Captain’s Glass
My Mural Gazer story, The Captain’s Glass, is a piece of period fiction, a genre I sometimes stumble into, and a place where I experience a sort of personality split, part of me wanting to live the life of other people in other times, another wanting to free myself from the constraints of historical accuracy.…
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Charlie Abbott
Where did all the stones for the Hermit’s Trail come from? Imagine Charlie Abbott shifting them, a few at a time, in a wheel barrow, from wherever he might have found or quarried them, to the network of walls and trails he built stone by stone, year by year in the woods above Chemainus! The…
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Stand alone site or Wattpad? What’s best?
For writers interested in direct-to-web (D2W) publication, there are many options. I am creating The Mural Gazer in two: a stand alone web-site, with its own domain name, MuralGazer.ca; and Wattpad, a template driven platform where authors can post stories without the hassle of maintaining their own site, here’s the Wattpad Mural Gazer link. To…
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Five, four, three, two, one…
It’s not often a writer gets to launch his novel before the ink has dried on the pages, let alone before the pages have been printed, or even before ‘the end’ has been typed on a final manuscript. But The Mural Gazer is lifting off as of now, and we’re going to be fine-tuning the…