Category: Writing Process
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Why go Direct-to-Web?
Direct-to-Web is more than just a digital format that allows publishers to distribute and share books cost-effectively and in an environmentally sensible manner, it also makes possible intriguing new connections between authors and readers. Why should we experiment with D2W as part of our literary mix? A D2W book can be read on a mobile,…
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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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The end’s in the beginning
I’m 31 episodes in and I’ve just posted my first Mural Gazer story, based on Harry Sanderson’s initial entry into Mural#1 – Steam Donkey at Work. By now, I think readers will have a sense of how this book will unfold – how character, theme, plot, voice and structure can be sustained through I’m not sure…
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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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Who is this Harry Sanderson?
One of the most fascinating aspects of creative writing is character development, an unfortunate term for an organic, unsettling and enriching activity that is central to real fiction. I have labeled the term ‘unfortunate’, because the word ‘development’ implies a level of control that would strangle this fundamental aspect of creative writing before my characters…
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Tales in the making
My dream for the Mural Gazer – my elephant with wings – is a set of stories that involve the community of Chemainus in the telling, through theatre, art, literature, and any other mode of experiencing and expressing that comes to hand… Writers go through phases as they mature. As a young writer, I didn’t…