Time to Begin or Time to Not
It's officially a new year, which can be daunting when you've spent the past two weeks with hardly a clue as to what day it is, what time it is or whether those things matter at all. If those things really don't matter, then you can eat dessert at any time without needing to think of more practical things like a proper meal first. Or mulling the Big Things like what you're doing with your life in The New Year. There's a lot of pressure to start something (that book you're alw
Writing during the Holidays
'Tis the season for wondering where the sun is, subbing dinner for chocolate and wine, a seemingly endless amount of gatherings and neglecting all your hard cultivated habits from the 11 months prior. Which includes writing. How could it not? The frivolous little stories you fritter away at are the easiest thing to ignore when you can't possibly do everything at once all month. You are NOT a machine. It would be so easy to let AI write this, you think during a particularly w
Entering the Hidden Fantasy World
Holy Door St. Peter's Rome Does any fantasy book ever capture that complete magic of the first time you read about a world that ran alongside yours? There's nothing quite like the idea that you can climb into a wardrobe or tap a brick in an alleyway and wind up in a magical world that runs parallel to yours. As a plot device, it packs a lot of magical punch this way. Because you, as a reader, get to discover the world as your beloved characters do. Those were my favorite book
