Archive: Fantasy category
I haven't done a very good job of keeping up with this blog lately, have I. :) As it happens, I got a little, um, distracted, but I'm happy to report that the distraction has left as abruptly as it came, and life is now back to normal again.
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Each week I send out the ward announcements, and for the past two years or so, I've included a "Storytime" segment with, well, stories. :) They're first drafts, completely off the cuff (usually written in the half-hour before I send out the announcements), but they're fun to do. ...
Yesterday morning I was browsing through my copy of Tales Before Tolkien, and I happened to notice the Recommended Reading section at the back, which I'd never seen before.
Goosebumps.
You see, that section lists early fantasy writers and their works (William Morris, E. Nesbit, Lord Dunsany, Walter de la Mare, John ...
In my attempt (successful, so far) to avoid finishing Shadowpaint, I worked a little on The Girl in the Mirror (a Gothic narrative poem), and I realized something that I'd sort of noticed before but hadn't paid much attention to: without external constraints, I naturally gravitate toward fantasy and ...
