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Two stories, one to read and one to hear. Wait, make that three!
The Dying Earth anthology is finally out. My story “To Climb by the Light of the Sputtering Sun” was written specifically for the antho. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was the only full short story I wrote in 2018. (I wrote some flash and micro fiction, n…
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A Very Special FWO Weird #Christmas
(Beth Turnage Blog) From time to time at Fantasy Writer dot org we have submission challenges were we challenge each other to submit en massé to one publication to see how we fare. At Christmas, we participate in the Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest,where Craig, the owner of the site, chooses a few winners and……
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On Swearing*
*contains some swearwords I have a theory on why words start sounding really weird if we repeat them over and over. Mostly, when we use language, we’re not actually thinking about the sounds that our mouths are forming, but the meaning attached to those sounds. Listening to a foreign language is just sounds without meaning,…
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Storytelling Tips for Dungeon Masters: Stop Filtering.
D&D is a game of storytelling. It largely inspired my desire to write fantasy fiction. In writing fiction, I have learned techniques to help improve my narrative skills and many of them are transferable to role-playing games. Dungeon Masters can im…
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The next Lyrical Worlds newsletter
I knew a newsletter going out at the start of the week would just get lost in Cyber Monday sales pitches (and yikes, I knew it would be bad, but it seemed like a lot more than other years this time…). So the December newsletter will be going out earl…
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Am I Letting My Peers Down?
So…. I am not someone who leaves a ton of reviews on the works I read. There are a few reasons. One, I have been reading a lot of indie fantasy lately. The authors are my peers to some degree and I have a friendly acquaintance relationship with quite a few. I am reluctant to–…
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