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Books, writers, and the art of writing by Wayne K. Spear

  • Writers and Writing

I’m tired of being a crappy blogger, and here’s what I’m doing about it

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 11, 2015January 28, 2015

If you are a blogger, the odds are you have been going through the same…

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  • Writers and Writing

Dear Mister Captain—please let me on the life boat

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 2, 2015January 2, 2015

NOTE—This piece is based on a writing assignment in the book 642 Things to Write…

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  • Writers and Writing

Full Circle: download and read the story here

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 17, 2014January 2, 2015

Follow me on Twitter. Find my latest book, Residential Schools: with the Images and Words…

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An open letter to Stephen King

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 9, 2014January 2, 2015

I‘VE JUST FINISHED On Writing. It’s been years since I’ve read one of your books,…

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  • Writers and Writing

Reasons you should start a blog. And me destroying them.

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 5, 2014January 2, 2015

I GOT CURIOUS about my odds. The biggest lottery in Canada? I have about a…

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  • Humor

5 tell-tale warning signs that you may be a writer

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 4, 2014January 2, 2015

Warning: you may be a writer! WHAT IS A WRITER? The screen shot above has…

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  • Humor

5 common mistakes made by writers

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 3, 2014October 23, 2016

IF YOU READ this little website of mine, you probably know I’m a fan of…

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  • Humor

The ghost writer of Christmases past

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 2, 2014January 2, 2015

DECEMBER 1st has arrived, and here at the ranch that means it’s time to light…

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  • Humor

1/2 of self-published authors earn under $500: I’ve figured out how not to be one of them

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 1, 2014August 26, 2017

WELCOME to Christmas, the time of year when people dress up like serious adults, to…

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  • Books

Coming Fall 2014—”Residential Schools: with the Words and Images of Survivors”

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 6, 2014February 26, 2015
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  • Books

Me Reading at the AFN

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 28, 2014January 2, 2020
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  • Books

RTRPARD at 20: Yes, I have a book that’s old enough to buy booze

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 22, 2014January 3, 2015

LATER THIS MONTH, I’ll be releasing a special 20th anniversary edition of my 1994 hit…

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  • Obituary

Life Itself, a review

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 13, 2014January 22, 2020

I WAS NOT A devotee of Roger Ebert, but Life Itself makes me wish I’d paid…

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  • Wayne's Picks

Death and Language

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 17, 2014January 2, 2015

AN EDITOR ASKED ME not long ago if I might change the word “died” to…

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  • Writers and Writing

Jeremy Paxman and Poetry’s Bad Rap

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 3, 2014January 3, 2015

A GUARDIAN UK article, written by Alison Flood and published over the weekend, quotes the…

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Wayne K. Spear has been a writer for over thirty years. His work has appeared in the National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He was a weekly CTV News panelist and currently hosts The Roundtable Podcast.

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Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and finalist of the 2015 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

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