Dear Book, Awww, you’re being awesome today. Can you be like this always? Me Dear Book, By always, I actually meant longer than the next 15 minutes. Sorry about the confusion. Me Dear Chapter 19, It’s all your fault. All the other chapters are so well behaved. Just remember, the outtakes file is in the […]
“The raucous cadence of your song / commands the hillsides loud and strong” Read More »
Dear Secondary Character Who Sets the Story in Motion, You may be evil, but the scenes you’re in, they write themselves. Who wouldn’t put up with a bit of evil for that? Me Dear All Characters With Any Dialogue Whatsoever, There’s a difference between damming a river and damning a river. I know it all
“What’s a hand / what’s a dream / who can say what it means?” Read More »
If an animal can eat carrion, will it, given a choice and access to affordable grocery stores? Is carrion-eating necessity or preference? Possibly this varies by species. Like, maybe a raven would prefer a rare hamburger and a strawberry smoothie. But maybe some species of vulture would actually choose that roadkill-of-indeterminate-age even when given other
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Not been online much. Busy with life stuff, book stuff, other stuff, so … … here. Have some music. 🙂 (This one is on the raven book’s playlist. While Duvekot’s “Phoenix” belongs on a Bones of Faerie playlist.)
I’m more of an owl than a raven. But that means ravens have things to teach me, so I need to pay attention.
Things the current project has taught me Read More »
Dear Secondary Character Who I’m Liking More and More All the Time, There. Right there. Page 90. That’s where you cross the line you’re going to have to spend the rest of the book redeeming yourself from. But hey, at least this pass I get why you need redeeming. In more than the last draft’s
“It’s a slow dive down / a fast distraction / a strange fall forward” Read More »
The raven landed on top of the streetlight in the morning light, making low noises deep in its throat, somewhere between a krawk and a purr, sleepy noises, irritated noises. It was cold outside, just above freezing, and the raven seemed to take the cold personally. I moved closer, within the range where most ravens
Grumpy raven is grumpy Read More »
So maybe there’s the one who walks away from Omelas. And maybe that doesn’t seem to matter much, at the time. Maybe it even seems an easy way out Only then there are also the three or five or three dozen people who watch that one walk away and think: okay, we’re not willing (can’t)
Thoughts while working on a story arc Read More »
Raven “Oh Raven, what you done? I long to see you but you’re gone …”
From the current book’s current playlist Read More »
Dear Book, That’s an interesting idea. A very interesting idea. But I need to know. Metaphorically speaking, is this an “oh, you’re a wolf!” moment or a “let’s kill the parent!” moment? You know what I mean. Even if nobody else does. Me
Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a “write it and find out” moment Read More »