It’s All About Story

Sunday, October 31, 2021

FAVORITE DARK FANTASY/HORROR BOOKS OF 2021

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You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce A mystery about a writer who narrates her imagined or not relationship with the faeries amidst an insidiously...
Sunday, June 6, 2021

THE STRANGE MYTHOLOGY OF BEARS

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Arctolatry -bear worship Bears may have been the first animals worshiped in the Paleolithic era, as evidenced by ocher-painted bear skulls a...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

TIME OF THE DARK BY BARBARA HAMBLY

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  THE TIME OF THE DARK series, published in 1981, is one of my favorite fantasy series. Here's why: Gil, a student of Medieval history, ...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

WHY IT'S SO GOOD TO BE BAD: WRITING THE FEMALE ANTIHERO

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'Trickster dwells in the realm of shadow, but perhaps that is for our salvation.' C.G. Jung  The antihero. The trickster. Why are th...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

HOW TO KEEP YOUR SANITY AS A WRITER

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Here are a few things that help me to avoid the depths of despair: NEVER forget why you write: Because you LOVE it. INSPIRATION. This is the...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN: WRITING A QUEEN

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  Real queens' lives were chained to womanly duties and a future hinged on producing a male heir. So, writers of fictional queens probab...
Sunday, November 8, 2020

10 DYNAMICS OF CHARACTER

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  I find these 10 rules helpful when I'm creating characters. Even if I don't use half the stuff that I journal, having these little...
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