Birk Sproxton

Making of Mephibosheth – Chat Group 3

by andrewkooman on August 11, 2010

The following is part of the back story I developed for the narrator in my short story “Mephibosheth“.  Birk Sproxton, who led the creative writing class at the Red Deer College in 2002 (where said story emerged) gave us a character assignment to generate a life for the narrator and to write a story in [...]

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Making of Mephibosheth – Chat Group 2

by andrewkooman on August 4, 2010

The following is part of the back story I developed for the narrator in my short story “Mephibosheth“.  Birk Sproxton, who led the creative writing class at the Red Deer College in 2002 (where said story emerged) gave us a character assignment to generate a life for the narrator and to write a story in [...]

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Making Of Mephibosheth – Chat Group 1

by andrewkooman on July 28, 2010

The following is part of the back story I developed for the narrator in my short story “Mephibosheth“.  Birk Sproxton, who led the creative writing class at the Red Deer College in 2002 (where said story emerged) gave us a character assignment to generate a life for the narrator and to write a story in [...]

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VIDEO: Limitation as Spur for Creativity

by andrewkooman on July 28, 2010

Here’s a video with a bit of the background information about how “Mephibosheth” came to be as a story, with a short tribute to the late Birk Sproxton, a Canadian writer many of us miss. Read “Mephibosheth” here. Read the back-story material Andrew discussed in the video.

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