Outlining Your Novel is Like Catching a Sunrise
Sunrise over the Lake I wanted to go Shakespearean "To Outline or Not to Outline" but I think the sunrise analogy is more spot on. Here me out! The sunrise is, in theory, the beginning of your day. The time before you have a massive to-do list, the time when you can maybe just sit, think, relax. And, in exactly that way, the outline is the beginning of your novel. It's right after you've had an idea or the spark of an idea, and when all you wanna do is jump into that idea and
A Faerie Story But Not the Kind You're Thinking
Phantastes by George MacDonald I started off my year of reading by deciding to read one of the books that inspired the books that had such a huge impact on me. Especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Lord of the Rings books. After the first few pages, it was already so clear where C.S. Lewis may have gotten the idea of stepping into a Faerie world running alongside ours but completely strange and foreign. And, many of the themes (of love, of good, of evil) not
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
