A Littoral Drift

Graphic novel: Inspiration and process

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Salvage, a new comic that will be published in the Humber Literary Review (Fall 2015). A critique and exploration of salvage anthropology (see Douglas Cole’s book, Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts), back-to-the-landers and their contemporary equivalent, of Emily Carr (and Liz Magor’s dialogue on Emily Carr, “Beaver Man”), relationships between colonizers and colonized, the land and ownership.

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Land of the Headhunters, Tluu Xaadya Naay Longhouse, Gaauu

photo: Jason Shafto

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Franz Boas' 1881 dissertation was called, "Contributions to the Understanding of the Colour of Sea Water."

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Zero Draft 15 min

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Art Spiegelman in conversation with Maurice Sendak, In the Dumps

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Today at the Ontario Art Gallery

Manasie Akpaliapik

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Writing a Zero Draft

Notes on writing a Zero Draft:

Writing the Zero Draft Handout (doc)

It does not matter what you say or how you say it at this point. You are just trying to get thoughts out in the open where you can work with them.

This draft may bear no resemblance to the final version, but it is the first step in what the final draft can become.

You don’t have a thesis or claim? Just write what you know and have to say right now, and a claim may emerge.

Zero Draft, or 5 Steps to Writing the Crappiest First Draft You Can

Having a zero draft is like having a hibernating squirrel - your mind gathers thoughts and ideas for it, even when you think you are ignoring it.

Steps: Collect your research, select which research to use, write your zero draft using everything you want to be included, and sometimes everything and anything you can think of.

While the squirrel is hibernating, you are gathering nuts and berries for it and hopefully remembering where you stored them and then you return to fatten it up

What is a Zero Draft?

Write down as quickly as you can everything you can think of that pertains to your topic or your theme.

Don't let yourself repeat or digress or get lost, but don't worry about the order of what you write, the wording, or about crossing out what you decide is wrong.

The Zero Draft

Private document just for the writer

Write notes in you think, feel, have hunches about or anything else that comes to mind about what you have written

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Delilah S. Dawson: 25 Writing Hacks From A Hack Writer

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Getting back on track with posters from my graphic facilitation session with Sam Bradd.

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Scythe the weeds and just do one thing.

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Learning to read and listen and then write, without either panic or laziness.

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Notes on Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact and On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849 - 1871. Now must return them to the library, they are six days late!

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Finished customizing tumblr theme.

Created avatar

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Finished a three page comic poem/poetry comic. Submitted to Room Magazine, the Trespass issue. It ended up much different than I initially thought and I would like to make some revisions.