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Tag: Writing Fantasy
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Sources and Stories
When I was writing Possum Creek Massacre, I was drawing from a lot of sources. Most of them unwritten. I did do a little research into the folklore of the area, and some into locales, although that was mainly to make sure there isn’t actually a town named Possum Creek in Kentucky (There isn’t, although…
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Fantasy is Tough
I don’t like fantasy. You heard me. I grew up reading Tolkein, CS Lewis, Madeline L’Engle, and loving them. I remember absorbing the Pern books all out of order and visiting different libraries to try and track them down (yes, I know technically Pern isn’t magic, bear with me). I read all fourteen Oz books…
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What a Day
It has been a day of achievements. My blog post is up at ASM, the Genderless Mind? which I am very pleased with, I did a good bit of research to write that one. Using gender to fully develop characters requires first knowing something about male/female brains and how they differ. I wrote almost 6000…
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Week 2 of the novel
I am writing along with Sarah Hoyt as she does the 13 Weeks program, check here for the details. This week she covers the topic of an idea for the novel. Since I am working on mine already, I just have to encapsulate the idea. Which is a trick in itself, as it’s hard to…