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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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Seven Links 4/6/19 Traci Kenworth
fantasy sci-fi Seven Links 4/6/19 Traci Kenworth Writing: 1. https://megdowell.com/2019/03/30/the-12-hardest-things-about-writing/ “Whoever says it’s easy has never actually tried it.” 2. https://killzoneblog.com/2019/03/from-beer-to-bookshelf.html “In keeping with last week’s post on risk-taking and writing what pleases you, I’d like to tell you the story of a dead lawyer.” These sound fun! 3. https://megdowell.com/2019/04/01/not-everything-you-write-has-to-be-publishable/ “Sometimes it’s OK to just mess around…
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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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Book Talk 4/5/19 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 4/5/19 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Traci Kenworth Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two Playscript based on a story by J.K. Rowling by John Tiffany and Jack Thorne. Pottermore Publishing July 25, 2017. Amazon’s Blurb: The official playscript of the original West End production of Harry Potter and…
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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.…