a garden of nna mmoy

I finished off a group project, due tomorrow afternoon, after a communications crisis that had me stressed and anxious for a week. I read most of a biography of Margaret Laurence for a research pro...

The first thing I want to say is: thanks to all of you who answered the facebook plea. I figured it might take a day or two just to rack up the 10 confirmations I needed to claim (my own) blog; ins...

This is just for the handful of you whom Technorati tells me are still linking to the athenadreaming.org address.
Athenadreaming.org will be taken down and the redirect will stop working as of Oct ...

If any of you are facebook members and have a few spare minutes, could you click through to my blog's facebook page and click on the "confirm blog author" link?
I don't want to use it to market or ...

The problem with blogs is that they don't know what they are yet. They're less a genre than a form, like books. You can't talk about how to write books without talking about what kind of book you'r...

If Christmas is when Scrooges turn into Santas, then Thanksgiving is when people who normally shriek at the sight of a squirrel show up at the farm to breathe deeply of the aroma of cowshit, mud an...

After this week's posts, I couldn't resist posting the new cover of Now (especially for those of you not in Toronto). Click through for the full version but you'll have to read fast.
Enjoy, and ha...

Word Spy is my favourite word geek blog; every few days it posts a newly minted word, complete with definition and examples of usage from the popular media. They're all words actually in use, thoug...

This whole series has INTJ written all over it. By the way, after I get the boring pedantic part out of the way, I spend some time in this one talking about what we can learn from Sarah Palin's vic...

Now I'm doing this just because I enjoy it. See? I told you not to get me started.
Mainstream Fiction: Fiction is amazingly complicated. A writer is trying to communicate so many things simultaneou...