On hiatus this week
Hi folks, the blog is on hiatus this week while my laptop is getting fixed. See you next week 🙂
Hi folks, the blog is on hiatus this week while my laptop is getting fixed. See you next week 🙂
All the best from my home to yours 🙂 See you again in the new year!
What a great opening line, and for a poem no less! Once upon: a classic fairy-tale starter, used by generations of storytellers to immediately ready our minds for an adventure. Midnight: the archetypal time of night for the gates between our world and the world to open, for mischief to commence. It’s a strangely transitional …
Having just read about a peculiar “Euro-Western” phenomenon called “plant blindness”, I wanted to write about how important it is for authors to pay attention to the world around us. Even when you’re creating your own fantasy world, the way that our environment functions can provide essential clues for populating your fictional world. Plant blindness …
Background material: seeing the world around us – Gardens Read More »
(7 min read) Since the idea for the Chaos Roads Trilogy began with my family’s annual road trips when my brother and I were children, it seemed fitting to write my first blog post on that subject. I love road trips because they embrace and celebrate small towns and life that unfolds slowly. Road trips …