Content Farm Writing

There is always room at the bottom

   If you agree to write for next to nothing – novelists excepted, because they are a special case of crazy - you might be in the wrong profession.

   This has always been my belief, and an opinion I read this morning on something called Story Board* about something called content farm writing only reinforces my stand on this.

The Indefinite Article (Episode II)

Just because it’s heavy, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t lift it

   I once met a man. His name was J. Richard McEwan, a Micmac Indian (back before it was spelled Mi’kmag) from the Bear River Indian Reserve in Nova Scotia. I sat in his living room with my Uncle Everett, and Mr. McEwan told me how his father bent and bundled ribs for the birch bark canoes he built.

   This gentle man and my good uncle reminisced about Bear River in its heyday. My host was 81 and my uncle was 65. Talk gradually, perhaps inevitably, turned to the feats of strength of its men.