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A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

Dragons Lure w/misty

David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

Sharing a Dream

(Please note that once again I’ll be away from my computer and won’t be able to respond to comments. I’ll trust my fellow MWers to comment on my behalf.)

I was thinking the other day that in half my posts here at MW, I wax rhapsodic about how much I love my job and [...]

What's Your Book About?

As I've mentioned before, I'm an avid photographer — the photos at the top of the MW home page are mine — and on occasion I have taken lessons from my experiences with photography and applied them to writing. I'd like to do that again today.

One of my favorite photographers, a guy named John [...]

Tunnel Vision

A few years ago I took a photo of a Southern Red Trillium, a beautiful and somewhat unusual flower native to this part of Tennessee.  The lighting and composition of the photo worked out perfectly — the light was bright enough to bring out the color, but not so direct as to be harsh.  The [...]

Finding Real Magic in Writing

The magic system in my first series — the LonTobyn Chronicle — had three elements:  the mage, his or her familiar (usually a bird of prey), and a crystal or ceryll, as I called it, that focused the power sourced in the psychic connection between bird and mage.  Each person’s crystal, and by extension, each [...]

I feel this is a writing-related post.

I have been blessed with excellent teachers in my life, one of whom is Pat Dixon, my high school photography teacher. I’d always liked photography, but his classes were inspiring to me, as was he.

As he still is, as a matter of fact.

I’ve been idly working on getting prints up over at Deviant Art (though [...]

Changes in the Light

This morning, instead of my usual workout, I hiked out to one of my favorite viewpoints here in my home town (we sit atop the Cumberland Plateau) and I spent an hour taking pictures.  The viewpoint overlooks a narrow valley which opens out into some farmland.  The opposite slope is completely undeveloped and covered with white and red [...]