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  • Old, Scary Folktales

    Storytelling was a big thing when I was a kid. The internet was just getting started back in the early 1990s and generally it was used for research more than entertainment like it is today. I remember gathering a handful of friends in a rarely empty band room and exchanging scary stories together. It became…

  • Outside of Your Comfort Zone

    Yesterday R. Michael made a post, Blogging Lessons and Woes, about how it’s important as an author to write outside of your comfort zone. In his case, he was very referring to blogging. After a year of having his blog, he was shocked at how much he appreciated it. I’ve run this blog for almost…

  • Fantasy, Beauty, and Fashion

    A friend and I stumbled upon this video earlier, and we were simply awestruck by this woman’s incredible sense of beauty and fashion. Watching her careful attention to detail in putting together these looks is fascinating. (Click on the images below to see the full detail.)   Despite the way people sometimes treat her when…

  • Hooray for To-Do Lists!

    In January 2015, I felt stretched thin with all of the writing projects I was working on. So I pulled out some paper and made a list of all of them, including a to-do list for each one. It really helped to keep me focused throughout the year, and it felt so good to be…

  • My Favorite Kind of Strange

    When you mention fantasy to anyone, they typically think of sweeping epics like the Lord of the Rings trilogy or Game of Thrones. Just like when you mention horror, they think of a million Stephen King titles or gory films like Saw or Hostel. Now I do love a good fantasy epics and I can…