WELCOME to RAW… an on-line book club and discussion forum for all things bookish, run by The Writers’ Circle of Durham Region, but open to anyone.

Check the eChat page and join the discussion, debate and dissection of our current book— Help Me, Jacques Cousteau, by Gil Adamson.

Or pick a topic and start a conversation…
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

 

Bite-Size Editspencil

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When the independent bookstore goes the way of the dinosaur, whose fault will it be? Only by supporting them will they survive. It’s up to us. 

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Canada Reads (the original) Begins!

11:30 a.m. daily on CBC Radio One (7:30 p.m. on CBC TV)

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Because there is never enough poetry

 

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Because we love words… 

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Because it’s Friday…

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He should have golden arches on the covers of his books.

Happy Thursday!

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Uxbridge Reads picture with Neil Crone & Sue Reynolds thumbnail 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
   

Uxbridge – a reader’s town


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Building an author’s “platform”

Author platform vs. writing platform

10 Ways to Build Your Writer’s Platform

The difference between building a fiction and a non-fiction platform

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When you’re blocked…

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New Writing School

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Al Purdy’s A-Framea-frame

And because we’re feeling poetic… THIS, from The New Quarterly 

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Terry Fallis on ‘Canada Also Reads’…

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On the subject of (mis)using language…

 

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Crash Blossoms and other Oddities…cherry_blossoms

 

 

 

 

 

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The Power of  ‘Out There’….

Only heard about THIS VIDEO yesterday but apparently a few others already knew about it. Something like 45 million views on YouTube.  The short story is that a guy posted an animated video back in 2006, it immediately went madly and (when you see the tape you’ll know what I mean) unexplainably viral. Weirder still, the fascination with it continues. 

The guy  of course has since launched an extremely successful film and video business as a result.

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Choose Cheese Instead…

Happy Thursday!

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Second World War = Bestseller? 

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Bill Watterson Interviewch-kick-shins

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Ray Robertson on book reviews 

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Happy Thursday!default

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