Casey June Wolf's Blog, page 10
June 9, 2010
Quenching the Router: Controlling the Winds of Distraction
Thich Nhat Hanh tells a story about going for a walk once when he lived in a mountain hermitage, and leaving his windows open to the morning air. While he was out the wind picked up violently and by the time he arrived home his writing papers were wildly flung about the room and his belongings were all in chaos. He closed the windows against the still blowing wind, gathered his papers, and put his home back in order before doing anything else.
He tells this story to illustrate the...
May 28, 2010
New Review FCOS by Simon Petrie in ASIF
New Review May 27, 2010
Finding Creatures and Other Stories
Reviewed by Simon Petrie.
C. June Wolf is a specfic writer who lives in Vancouver. Finding Creatures is her first collection of stories, several of which have appeared previously in various small press magazines and anthologies.
"Claude and the Henry Moores" features a failed artist security guard who works at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and becomes gradually captivated by the gallery's collection of Moore's abstract sculptures....
May 21, 2010
Casey Wolf Writes: The Inaugural Newsletter, 21 May 2010
Sent off my first writerly newsletter, inviting people to sign up at Yahoo Groups for the occasional followup missive. Here it is below , sans links. If you want the links as well, have a boo here . Unfortunately, Yahoo can't cope with accents and so on, so the letter looks a tad silly there, but what the heck.
One good use of the group is the File folder. I've placed pdfs of three stories there, which I will add to from time to time. So far you may help yourself to:
"The Coin"
"Claude and the...
May 19, 2010
The Prizes: "Roksana" & "Posture of the Infinite"
Back in the mists of time I did an interactive interview and chat for Bitten By Books. The prizes included a poem and a story written to specs given by the winners. (Within limits. See the bottom of this post for details or check out the video interview and text chat at the BBB site.)
I wrote the poem "Roksana" for Rose last November. This is what she'd said: "Ok, protagonist's name is Roksana, and the ability she has is shape shifting to any animal. Roksana loves paranormal romance and...
April 29, 2010
A Necessary Change
I've been quiet on this blog recently. Besides dealing with the death of my dad, a motley of illnesses, and difficult unplanned events, I've been thinking. About writing, about self-promotion, about blogging, and primarily about my life. Where I want to focus, how I want to carry on. A change is needed, and though this was evident before Dad died, I was managing okay and planned to finish up the projects I'd chosen to do before making any alterations to my lifestyle. Dad hastened all that...
April 28, 2010
Coming Publication: "The Corpse Pose"
I'm happy to report that my story "The Corpse Pose" has been accepted for Room Magazine's Women and Spirituality issue, coming out in December 2010.
"The Corpse Pose" is the first thing I have completed since my dad's death in December. I tried to write about something else but, as you might guess from the title, death is still very much on my mind. I'm happy to say that the story is getting wonderful reactions. One reader said, "You've written about death, but you've given us life." I'm...
Sale: "The Corpse Pose"
I'm happy to report that my story "The Corpse Pose" has been accepted for Room Magazine's Women and Spirituality issue, coming out in December 2010.
"The Corpse Pose" is the first thing I have completed since my dad's death in December. I tried to write about something else but, as you might guess from the title, death is still very much on my mind. I'm happy to say that the story is getting wonderful reactions. One reader said, "You've written about death, but you've given us life." I'm...
April 5, 2010
Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves | Video on TED.com
Okay. You are getting the idea that I think TED is great. A rich store of short films offering ideas, inspiration, observation--wonderful! Here is a talk by Shekhar Kapur on the creation of stories.
Where does creative inspiration spring from? At TEDIndia, Hollywood/Bollywood director Shekhar Kapur ("Elizabeth," "Mr. India") pinpoints his source of creativity: sheer, utter panic. He shares a powerful way to unleash your inner storyteller.
'...When I go out to direct a film, every day we...
April 2, 2010
Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story | Video on TED.com
What storytelling can be.
From TED: Ideas Worth Spreading:
"...the theme of Lobo's career: breaking down stereotypes while reframing the landscape.
"Since 2001, Lobo has been taking haunting stills of everything from Yakuza tattoos and the illegal organ trade to the Indian middle class. He's worked as a field producer on many nature-oriented shows for...
March 19, 2010
Haiti Updates
Gody, in La Vale, Haiti, sent me this video link: "Haïti, retour au pays dévasté". Temps Present: Magazine de Reportage presents footage and French language discussion of the current situation in Port au Prince.
For those of you with Facebook accounts, you can view Gody's slide show of the situation in La Vale at this link: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1321332146295&ref=mf
A film showing La Vale de Jacmel before the quake. Focus is on the people's credit union...
