The following is a selection from The ABC’s of Writing Fiction (1-884910-12-2, Story Press/McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Apr.), by Ann Copeland. Beanbag… Read More »
Researching fiction out of fact
In fiction, facts in themselves are clay without breath; it’s the implied connections between fact and character that create meaning.… Read More »
The vernacular is on the move
A writing teacher of my acquaintance complained to me recently that characters in her students’ scenes often snap at each… Read More »
The difficult choices required of translators
Recently I received the galleys of a novel I’d translated for Stoddart Publishing. Be it a book you’ve written or… Read More »
New Latin to Old English
It’s too bad Latin has fallen off the curriculum in Canadian schools, if only because we are all still in… Read More »
Fictional ethics at the Summit Salon
My third novel, Kondor, deals I with the subject of wartime Germany and describes acts of extreme inhumanity. In creating… Read More »
Inventing the truth
Following is an excerpt from the keynote address given by Barbara Greenwood on October 18,1997 at Packaging Your Imagination, a… Read More »
In search of a few yuks
In an article this past fall about a new cable television channel devoted to comedy, a journalist mentioned “Aristophenes [sic],…
Andrew Pyper examines fear and loathing in Canadian literary review circles I am one of those purists who believe that – wait a minute, shouldn’t that be “believes?” Well, actually no,… Read More »
Why nobody’s a critic
The number game
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