I’ve decided to take advantage of a slight lull in the work schedule and…gasp!…take a day off. But I leave you in the capable, if slightly gore-coated, hands of E.C. Ambrose, who has been delving into a particularly fascinating bit of history for their recent “Dark Apostle” novels… Medical Excellence in the Middle Ages […]
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In which I talk about realizing the source of WHY I wrote SILVER ON THE ROAD, and how we are touched by the books of the past… “No book comes out of nowhere. In fact, no book comes out of only one direction. There’s the trigger, the push that takes a story from faint germ
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Professional reviews are lovely. Reader reviews make my heart grow two or three sizes. But peer reviews give me the shiver of craft-recognized on a while different level – because most writers, willingly or not, become jaded readers. So if you can wow them, that’s a job very well done. ——————- Originally posted by difrancis
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But really, it can all be summed up thus: The squalling of “oh, fantasy isn’t about REAL issues or proper use of metaphors” we’re seeing once again from critics and writers who should know better by now ignores the fact that ALL good fiction invokes moral and psychological themes – and emotional themes, too. And
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1. A cat story. So Castiel Kitten of Thursday likes to sit in the window seat behind my desk and do his “heyyyyyyy heyyyyy heyyyyy†meow (imagine a very cute rusty gate). And then when I turn my chair around and look at him he stops, stares at me in confusion like OMG you’re looking
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