Song Styles
Who Wants To Be A Hero? is still seeking an agent, which means that some typing is curtailed due to my perpetual crossing of fingers. I've spoken before about some of the character themesongs, and today I'd like to highlight Senashi, the god......
Monday Meanderings
I recently did a "Boot Camp" with the goal of writing a flash fiction or poetry piece, per day, for two weeks. I mostly concentrated on flash because that was what I "needed" for submission purposes, but I did finish four poems. (I partly s......
Song Styles
I'll be posting more from my Scylla and Charybdis playlist once I have a release date for the novel, but in the meantime, here's a "general purpose" song on it that I really like simply because it's imaginative and joyous:In The Arms Of The Milky ......
Song Styles
So I spent the last two weeks doing a self-imposed Boot Camp, writing a flash or poetry piece a day from a list of prompts I collected / generated. My prompt from Day 12 was "She watched the bloodstained dress burn." (Not necessarily to inc......
Monday Meanderings
Outside the realm of fantasy, the Prologue is a perfectly acceptable way to foreshadow, show an unrelated or only partially related event that sets the scene, or otherwise provide a frame for the book to follow.Inside the realm of fantasy, the Prologue......
Song Styles
Thanks to a fellow harper, I have a beautiful new early music tune to work on, a Middle English song entitled "Byrd One Brere" - according to her, the first known love song. Here's the Mediaevel Baebes' take on it:Byrd One BrereGorgeous, haunting......
Monday Meanderings
A few months ago, the organizers for my harp group (which believe me when I say it is like herding cats) met to discuss repertoire. We also exchanged music. One harper offered a packet of Irish hymns and mentioned, "They're all pretty easy.......
Song Styles
So a long time ago, I wrote a story to a prompt from the wonderful The 3am Epiphany (Kiteley, highly recommended for an author of any genre) to write about an article of clothing. The resultant story took just a smidge of inspiration from this so......
Monday Meanderings
Today, I want to talk about a character trope that particularly annoys me, one you see nigh-constantly in television media: the genius is an a*****e. I'll use the term jerk from here on out to avoid having to self-censor myself, but really:......
Song Styles
Unnatural Causes is off to readers ... heaven help me (and them).So for today, here's the song I have written down as a touchstone on the overarching theme. If you listen to the lyrics, they refer specifically to a romance, but they have much bro......