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Still Alive
Found at Facebook, occasionally Twitter, and mostly by Friended accounts at Dreamwidth ( Read more... ) -
Elements of Storytelling-Characters
(I've been helping to close out and sell my parents' home, which as anyone who has done it can tell you takes a huge amount of time and effort. To let you know I'm alive, some writing neep. I've talked about this topic other places, but I don't think I've ever done it on my own blog. So...)Writers think a lot about characters ( Read more... ) -
Just for Fun--a Review of the Anime Series Princess Tutu
I’m going to talk about one of my all-time favorite animes, Princess Tutu. Yes, I know - I can feel you cringing at the title. I can hear you thinking: A silly shojo (young girl’s) anime, about a duck transforming back and forth between a clumsy young girl ballet student and a superhero prima ballerina princess in a tutu? A dance instructor who ( Read more... ) -
Dipping into the Grimoire: Elderberry Cordial
The hero of my fantasy series Night Calls is Alfreda Sorensson, a young practitioner on her way to being a full blown wizard. While I am not Allie, I carry in my heart many of the things she loves and creates wherever she lives. I grow herbs when I can, seek out fresh, organic food and seasonings, and dream of growing heritage apple trees. In a ( Read more... ) -
Things I've Learned About Hummingbirds
I've been reading a wonderful book called "Fastest Things on Wings" by Terry Masear. (Thank you, Lee!) It's a memoir of Masear's early days as a hummingbird rehab specialist. I've done a review that will crop up at Book View Cafe and Goodreads, but in the meantime, let's save a few hummingbird lives. Here are some things I either didn't know, or ( Read more... ) -
The ofrenda is early this year...
I've been quiet for both good and bad reasons. First I was quiet because I started a new book, something fun and different my subconscious insisted on, and I'm 80,000 words into it. Then I was quiet because the heat of an Arizona summer hammered me flat, and I was trying not to lose the ground I'd gained earlier in the year ( Read more... ) -
When the Muse Attacks (Sharing from Judith Tarr's blog)
Come for the mentoring. Come for the Lipizzans. Come for the Sonoran Desert. You won't regret it! Judith Tarr delivers. As for me, I am still working my way through a new fantasy novel--around 190 pages in, and our heroine has figured out that her life is...oops....
Originally posted by dancinghorse at When the Muse Attacks
Something strange has happened ( Read more... ) -
Aspiring Writers Info--Move into the Magic
Hi, I have not vanished--I am 130 pages into a book that is not going as I planned, but I am having fun. With luck this means my readers will also have fun with it. I was going to go into "don't look back" and "just keep going" and "Are we having fun?" but Jennifer Crusie just wrote a similar blog entrySo I am going to link to it, and then get back ( Read more... )
