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Another NHL Season. ARE YOU READY? Are the Sabres Ready?
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Welcome from Artica Burr
I am an author of fiction short stories and narrative poetry, located in the Buffalo area, New York, USA. Buffalo, adjacent to the Canadian border, is near the mighty Niagara Falls. The current concentration of my fiction writing has been about youth to NHL level ice hockey. I also write about street hockey. Some consider me a writer of hockey poetry, or fan fiction when I write about particular real players but actually my stories are written in narrative verse. This type of verse is the conversion of a story so that it rhymes as you read along. It's an interesting style of writing and unique contribution to literature. I also visit local ELA classes 5th through 8th by invitaion working in some form of small writing project, as well as Senior Group classes to help them learn to write about events and capture moments in their lives in written word. My humerous views on life and hockey are posted on buffalo.yourhub.com and choose Cheryl under featured bloggers.
Buffalo is home to the NHL Buffalo Sabres hockey team. Our Niagara University boasts excellent Division One Hockey. The whole WNY area has been a hot bed of ice and street hockey ever since the first puck crossed the Niagara River out of Canada. Here our dreams of, and struggle for, the elusive Stanley Cup begins at the age of five. Western New York, known for its cold, deep snowy winters, has sought after ice on rinks all year round and nets abound in driveways! While I have plenty of hockey fodder locally I do write short stories about national and international hockey players too. Be sure to vote for the goalie of the month.
Youth ice hockey here is bursting at the seams, and this spirit is reflected in my book Hockey Legend Myth & Verse, published by Trafford late in the year 2007.
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Our International Adventure
2008 finds the American author, Artica Burr, and Australian travel writer, Lynda Joy Smith, joining hands across the world to bring the way down under, white continent, Antarctica close up, personal, and available to classrooms. We have a joint interest in Antarctica, in order to execute our separate writing projects.
We worked on the middle school journal writing project with some US local schools, however any student is welcome to join in or just enjoy this web site. Unlike the US, Australian schools are on summer break during winter as Lynda took her adventure trip February 2008. Personal visits by the local author continued into April 2008.
Lynda Joy Smith's writing contributions are initialed LS, while mine are signed AB.
You can post a message or question to Lynda, or to me, Artica, on the message board.
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The Goalie King Legends
The characters of the youthful Goalie King of Antarctica, and his emperor penguin Arctic Burr, and Royal Burr hockey teams, were developed in my first two short story Buffalo legends. The 2007 Buffalo Sabres with Martin Biron in net, and Niagara University Purple Eagle hockey team, including Greg Gardner, were deftly woven into these legends as active characters. Some of the Burrs, although perhaps more devious, bear the names of the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins. Surprisingly the tales are told in rhythm and rhyme so the faster you read the faster they play their game. My job as the author was to take some fact and from that spin my yarns of enjoyable reading for both young and old! Some call it hockey poetry however it is narrative verse.
Another Goalie King legend is on the tip of my pen and as is my habit, real hockey stars and a freelance travel writer from Australia, Lynda Joy Smith, will be woven into the new legend. Hockey Legend Myth & Verse is only the start. The book is currently available on Amazon.com, other internet book sites, through trafford.com and many e-book sites. My goal is to make my own e-book version of that book and new ones, available on this web site also. Meanwhile I will also be posting on this site short stories and verses, or poetry if you insist, that are found no where else and not part of my books. Other books, non Hockey will come. However, for now the puck flies and it's Hockey Time!
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COMING EVENTS & Information! It's HockeyFest 2008!
The "ARCTIC BURRS" will stick and ball as Pee Wee compeditors at the Sabres Street HockeyFest in front of HSBC Arena on August 17, 2008. The Street HockeyFest is a Buffalo Sabres/Dick's Sporting Goods annual event with history back to 2002. 176 teams of various levels are signed this year. All will sweat the 80 degree weather for the winning trophies in each division. Books and t-shirts will be available for sale at the Fest, beside whatever rink we are assigned to. It will be posted on the board. Stop to see us and wish us luck as the Arctic Burrs hit the pavement for the first time ever!!
My book "Hockey Legend Myth & Verse" is available locally at Crossroads Books, 6010 Goodrich Road, Clarence Center, NY 14032. Phone 716-741-1355 otherwise check trafford.com or amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com or borders.com or contact the author 716- 984-8900
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©2008 Last Update Oct 2008
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