2021
Please be better than 2020
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A recent discussion on a Christian Fantasy Reader/Writer group I participate in had a question posed. Can you be too old for Harry Potter. Thought I\’d post my answer here as well. I guess the question becomes, are you ever too old for a good story? I\’m a forty year old mom. I have friends…
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As much as I wanted to post an essay I wrote yesterday, I decided to send it somewhere that might pay actual cash money instead. Then again, it could get rejected, like everything else I send to this unnamed magazine. But by golly, I\’ve decided, I\’m going to get published by them. I will hound…
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Today\’s quiz du jour takes us back to Middle Earth. This isn\’t the first time I have gotten these results. Which obviously means, I\’m learning to answer the questions with a specific result in mind. You scored as Gandalf. You are Gandalf. You are both wise and strong. You will give your life for your…
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Obviously, I don\’t think so. But gee, Marion Zimmer Bradley. I could like that. You\’re The Mists of Avalon! by Marion Zimmer Bradley You\’re obsessed with Camelot in all its forms, from Arthurian legendto the Kennedy administration. Your favorite movie from childhood was \”The Sword inthe Stone\”. But more than tales of wizardry and Cuban…
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Who would have thought a list of questions would be so hard? I was one of those who asked too many questions growing up and was told to stop so many times, I think it finally stuck. So, without further whining, I give you questions. Possible essay topics, but I can\’t think of one specific…
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More ways to put off writing. Let\’s take a test! What theologian are you? I already know I\’m an INTP Rational Architect, should be housed in Ravenclaw, etc. You scored as Martin Luther. The daddy of the Reformation. You are opposed to any Catholic ideas of works-salvation and see the scriptures as being primarily authoritative.…
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the ending of my novel. But I just can\’t do it. I don\’t know why. I hate the current ending. The plot is reasonable, but I didn\’t set up enough for it to be believable. On top of that, it just dragged and changed genres. That\’s the worse sin, changing genres at the end of…
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I am skimming the surface of a big topic, but here are the notes I put together for a fifteen minute talk to a Christian Writers group this week. Since I\’ll be talking, I can embellish more as I go. Writing, well, this is the terse first draft. Maybe I\’ll come back and take each…
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Here I am, like I needed another blog in my life. This is the place where I will be doing the prewriting stuff for my novel Dagon’s Last Sacrifice and maybe some stuff for an alternative history thing with Native Americans. But the Philistine thing comes first. A blog is a wonderful tool for writers…
