Month: March 2021

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Hopping Genres: My Personal Experiences Writing Prose, Poetry, and Experimental Writing

By / January 25, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Prose, poetry, and experimental writing are not simply genres or writing, but feel like entirely different mediums and constructs. While you may go about writing a space opera differently from a harlequin romance, just as you use different aspects of poetry depending on if you’re writing lyrical poetry or spoken word, they all hold the …

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Prose: Lynn Coady’s Strange Heaven

By / January 25, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Originally written for hobby blog on 6 April 2018 I first read Lynn Coady’s Strange Heaven for a special topics English literature class. The focus was on women in literature, specifically, pregnancy in literature. We read works from the early modern era such as Spenser’s Faerie Queen all the way up to modern Canada like today’s book. It was …

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The Writer’s Toolbox

By / January 26, 2021 / Leave a Comment

While the following passage may seem like a lot to include, I think it’s important to make my point: My basic research shelves consist of around one hundred books, which represents 3  percent of my total collection, took me years to put together. These are the books I have within easy reach of my computer …

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At Poetry’s Roots

By / January 25, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Haha, more plant puns! You’ll be seeing a lot more of those, and I don’t regret it all. You might though. Like puns, poetry is another p-word that seems to make a lot of the general populace groan. “It’s too pretentious” (ooo look another p-word), “it’s boring,” “it’s just people with no rhythm attempting to …

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Movie: Backcountry

By / January 26, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Originally written for hobby blog on 20 April 2018 Spoilers be ahead I was initially excited about this film with the opening scene with characters Alex (Jeff Roop) and Jenn (Missy Peregrym) driving down the highway because I actually recognized the landscape passing by. Upon a quick google search I found that the movie is …

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Memoir vs. Movie: Robyn Davidson’s Tracks vs. John Curran’s Tracks

By / January 24, 2021 / Leave a Comment

Originally written for hobby blog 6 July 2018 Don’t read the sixth paragraph if you don’t want spoilers There feels like there is a lot less to talk when it comes to this movie versus the movie adaptation of Into the Wild. Perhaps it’s because there is more focus on Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson’s isolation from …

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