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Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Crazy talk:
Thomas said, "Stories are everywhere these days. In science, medicine, art, therapy, politics ... all of these fields have recognized the power and the value of both listening to and telling stories.It seems to me that this emphasis on stories as vehicles of..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Hamlet dies?:
Thomas said, "I haven’t blogged in over a week because my Mac failed and it took me a while to get it fixed. One day it just wouldn’t start -- all I got was the Grey Screen of Indeterminacy. Eventually the problem was solved -- a cable inside the..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled A Journey to Both Poles At the Same Time:
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Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Popular Posts from the Past: Five Questions:
Thomas said, "The other day I was looking through one of my writing notebooks and I was struck by how many questions there were in it. There was at least one curly little ? on almost every single page, and on some pages there were many. Questions about..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Once upon a shell:
Thomas said, "In the course on storytelling I taught this year, I challenged the students to combine text with some other medium in order to tell a story in a new or unusual way.The students responded with a wonderful burst of creativity. They put together photo..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Plotto:
Thomas said, "When I heard about this book I just had to get a copy. Plotto is the work of William Wallace Cook (1867 - 1933), a prolific churner-out of pulp novels in many genres. He was quoted as saying, “A writer is neither better nor worse than any..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Interview with Linda Quirk on writing young adult fantasy
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled "This is a dream, you know.":
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Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Sauron's map of Middle-Earth:
Thomas said, "I've been reading The Lord of the Rings to my son, and the other day we were speculating on the question, what if Frodo had failed? What if Sauron had regained the ring? We looked at the map of Middle-Earth in the book, and one of my first thoughts..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled A writer' journey:
Thomas said, "I'm away from home for a few days, on the coast to "find somewhere quiet where I can finish my book," as Bilbo tells Gandalf. I didn't even bring a computer, which is no great hardship since I brought my smartphone. But it does mean I can't post..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Secret pocket:
Thomas said, "I'm back from my writer's train journey, and I'm working on a photo essay about the trip, but in the meantime, here is a post from my old blog, The Logogryph:biking in the hot sun, legs pedalling, breath like swift waves rushing..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Focus:
Thomas said, "One day in my creative writing workshop we were discussing creativity and the mind. The main point I wanted to make was that the mind is a wonderful tool but elusive and fickle. The mind doesn't like to be coerced into being creative on demand. When..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Filling plotholes:
Thomas said, "With the warm summer weather, many of those ugly, dangerous plotholes are being fixed all over town.During winter, the vast, complicated novel that is this city takes a pounding from the elements, and many well-used stretches of urban story..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Going places:
Thomas said, "A day of writing. A whole day of writing. That doesn't happen often enough.But what is there to blog about a day of writing when it’s gone well?If I'd taken a trip somewhere, I could tell you about all the interesting people I'd met and the..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled A writer's journey:
Thomas said, "I wanted to see mountains again, and find somewhere quiet where I could finish my book. So I got on a train.I had never ridden on a passenger train before. Walking the narrow corridors, trying to keep my balance as the train shook and rocked, all I..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Kids these days:
Thomas said, "From my writing notebook:Pulled up behind a schoolbus yesterday afternoon, at a fourway stop. Bus full of kids, grade one or two probably, bouncing around, chattering, playfighting. The usual mayhem. Poor bus driver.As the bus pulled away from the..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Eleven things you didn't know about dragons:
Thomas said, " Ten Eleven Things You Didn’t Know about Dragons (a revised version of a popular post from the past)1. Dragons guard hoards of treasure not out of greed, but because of the healing and rejuvenating properties of gold. Dragons..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Wilderness:
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:49:01 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Jump:
Thomas said, "Waves. Standing at the edge of the red rock. They’re shouting at me. Jump. My toes at the very edge, curling over. Claw toes. Can’t see into the slip slap flashing water. Waves. Jump.The waves from the motorboat skier slapping the rock...." more
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:01:59 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Writing on Stone:
Thomas said, "One of my favourite places on the planet is Writing-on-Stone historic site, in the extreme south of the province. It’s a magnificent landscape, first of all, with a view across the Milk River of the Sweetgrass Hills of Montana rising out of..." more
Monday, March 18, 2013 9:13:56 AM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled The storyteller is the story:
Thomas said, "This image by the Dutch artist Cor Blok shows Gandalf (the White, after his death and resurrection) relating the story of his battle with the balrog to Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. On the wizard’s body one can see various episodes from his..." more
Friday, March 15, 2013 10:29:51 AM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Camping:
Thomas said, "On a stretch of flat scrubby ground along the Miette River, just outside of town, the park authorities had set aside space for travelers passing through Jasper who could not afford campground fees. The free camp, as it was known, had become a..." more
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:24:09 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled Happy Hamster and the Dream Police:
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Monday, March 11, 2013 1:08:07 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled The Darkness: A Love Story:
Thomas said, "What if tonight, when you’re scared and alone, with one arm hanging off the edge of your bed, the darkness reaches up and holds your hand?What if, instead of pulling back in fear, you hold onto the hand of darkness, and you tug. And what if..." more
Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:50:06 PM
Thomas Wharton wrote a blog post titled The story continues ... elsewhere:
Thomas said, "I am sad to say that I am discontinuing this blog on stories and storytelling and moving my web presence to another location. I will still be posting on stories, fantasy and writing from time to time on my new author website, at ..." more