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A very fine history teacher told me once that he would impart to his class the means to measure the future – by sleuthing the patterns to be found in the fabric of history. In my own way, through writing (and not too off from my former life as a professor), I have become another … Continue reading
Writing time can be as complex as a faerie riddle. I wrote a novel about fairies. The heroine Gigi is a sixteen year-old with a little faerie problem. Make that a big faerie problem. The other problem she faces is time. Time is a constant struggle in writing. Time changes everything: the fluidity of your … Continue reading
You dream of mermaids in a world of gilt jellyfish, girls who drop flowers and gemstones when they speak, men who battle monsters to rescue girls they have only seen in paintings. The world of your imagination is so beautiful, so luminous, it defies description. So why is it so hard to make it real … Continue reading
There’s nothing quite as exhilarating as that feeling of breaking new ground in an unfamiliar world. Terra incognita, as the saying goes; land you don’t know. Land that doesn’t know you. It’s the perfect metaphor to describe the making of fictional worlds. And it doesn’t matter how many pages you devote to that world: it … Continue reading
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