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What If Every Book You Read Offers You a Piece of Another Writer’s Soul?
Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: Well, that’s a jarring headline. But I’m not going to apologize for the way my brain works. Bear with me for just a little while, and I swear you won’t be disappointed. There are a lot of metaphors and similes used to make an attempt to explain to non-writers…
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If it’s progress it counts
Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: I spent my day working on stuff that didn’t involve new words of fiction. While that is my favorite thing to do, these other tasks have to get done too. I started with two critiques I received on Serang. This was a super long section, and about the time I…
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Horror as a Second Language (Fresh New Horror From Other Places & Cultures)
Originally posted on Zombie Salmon (the Horror Continues): When we look at the tradition of Horror, we tend to embrace its ethnocentrism as a characteristic of the genre – a living trope, if you will. We think that the construction of the genre happened in a Western vacuum and that there exists some kind of…
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Diary of an Author With Multiple Sclerosis – March 2019
Originally posted on Author Steve Boseley – Darkly Disturbing Fiction: March is over, and time for a recap on what has happened in the last four weeks, both with my writing, but also with my health. If you’re here for the writing updates and info on what I’ve learned, that bit comes first, as it…
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Mountains White as Clouds… Stuart France
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: * … “As I see it,” continues Wen, “we have two possible identities for an Old Woman who tends a Herb Garden and can be described as an Enchantress, or an Ogress…” “Only two?” “She is either Mother Earth or she is Mother Nature.” “The first is very…
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Elusive realities: The touch of the past..?
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Beckhampton Avenue, Avebury We visit a lot of ancient sites and, over the years, have developed both a set of ideas and a bit of a ‘feel’ for these places. Some of those ideas have later been borne out by research into the archaeological record and scientific perspective,…
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Haunted By the Book I Never Finished Writing
Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: In 2015, I wrote about 60,000 words of a novel I thought would be “the one.” Over the next three years, I wrote about 15,000 more words of that same novel. I was in it for the long haul, and I figured all those years would eventually pay off.…
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Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author 