Reading is a sensual experience to me. Yes, I smell the paperbacks and hard cover books I read. Don’t you? I love the feel of those old cloth book covers on my fingertips. The crackle of a…
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Druid tools are items of mysterious purpose both to our modern understanding and to non-Druids in the past. Since no Druid practices were ever written down, it’s tough to know the real or exact purpose for some…
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What’s a Dialogue Tag? Dialogue tags are narrator interjections, sometimes referred to as attribution, that note who speak the pieces of dialogue in your story. Historically, we were taught that adverbs included in the tags, describing how…
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So, funny story – I never meant to write Blood Runner at all. Surprised? This year (2019), as I’m now working to turn it into a series (say what?!), I was forced to analyse the story motivation…
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Magpie of research data that I am, here’s some more of my reference, this time on Egyptian magic. Sad to say, when I scratched down my handwritten notes at the library, I didn’t fully document sources (I…
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As a Druid, we learn to trust the Imbas. But what does this mean? Listening to the earth is at the heart of being a Druid. And when we say “listening to the earth”, this doesn’t mean…
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Upping my game this past year or so involved creating associations I never braved before. And most of them had some sort of “interview” component that included wanting to know about my writing process. Y’know, so people…
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Useless words, the weak and the pointless words, steal power from your writing. We all let them sneak in during the first draft, so don’t panic – you’re not alone. It’s what we do about them later…
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Be warned… semi-rant coming up… What set me off? Walking back from the grocery story with one of my demon spawn, we were accosted, twice within two minutes, by pamphlet-waving zealots as we crossed the intersection on…
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Continuity in writing is important to me. Maybe obsessively so. I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I catch continuity errors in my own work, I cringe. I mean, writers are supposed to be…
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