Posts Tagged: Writing
Word Processing = Writing
Posted by on Monday, December 29, 2003 in - 4 comments
I think we’ve let a term slip through our collective defences against nonsense and foolishness. Programs like Microsoft Word and WordPerfect are referred to as “word processors”. • Word processing? Think about it. It’s the dumb term. An editor or writing application maybe. Have you ever told …
A Series of Stolen Quotes from Douglas Coupland
Posted by on Thursday, September 4, 2003 in - 6 comments
The Morning News is running an interview with Douglas Coupland. He designed the cover of his latest book, Hey Nostradamus!, himself (and did a fine job). I recently read All Families Are Psychotic (an apt title that is both timely for me and absolutely true). Microserfs is one of my all-time …
Deplaning - a short story
Posted by on Thursday, July 10, 2003 in - 13 comments
I was invited to read a piece of fiction on a segment called “The Write Lane” on the CBC Radio PEI show, Mainstreet with host Mitch Courmier. • We spoke a bit about how writing for a weblog differs from tradition creative writing. I chose to read from a work-in-progress short-story (that I …
Reading on the (real world) Radio
Posted by on Wednesday, July 9, 2003 in - 4 comments
I’ll be reading from a short-story on CBC Radio PEI tomorrow. The reading is part of “The Write Lane”, a weekly piece featuring local writers. I should be on around 5:30PM Thursday, July 10. • If I can get my act together, I hope to post both the audio from the interview/reading and the text of …