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     | Today I want to talk about a writer. You never heard of her. She never sold a book to a commercial publisher, but she probably wrote the equivalent of twenty novels in her too-short life. She briefly joined our writing group about ten years ago, at which time she was working on a great [...] I love the idea of real magic. Surrounded every day by traffic and buildings, by dishes that need washing and trash that needs emptying, I can’t help desiring a world in which something sparkling and strange could be right around the corner. When I was a kid, I used to wander in the [...] There are certain utterances that cause writers to roll their eyes back, grab the nearest weapon-like object and start swinging. (Okay, maybe not actually swinging, but in our heads, boy are we creating mayhem!) We understand that people whose only connection to the writing business don’t really “get” what we do, and may [...] Lately I’ve been talking about building magic into your world, and I found that I often mention using role-playing games as resources. There’s something I should point out before we go much further. The story that’s created out of a gaming session is rarely one that will function between the covers of a [...] I love movies and books about the mystical nature of religion. Constantine, Stigmata, The Seventh Seal, The Prophecy…I just cannot resist them. The other day I watched a movie trailer for Legion, in which God sends his angels to exterminate the world’s population. The archangel Michael (played by the wonderful Paul Bettany) [...] In fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world. | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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