The Musicality of Water

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy

Generally, I avoid books featuring fae, finding them too often derivative or pollyannish.  Mississippi Missing, an urban fantasy laced with fae, came as rather a surprise. It neither demanded I know everything about the entire fairy world. Nor assuming I share a fan’s devotion to the intricacies of Welsh, Scottish, and whatever-all-esle mythologies. Sure, a […]

If It Were a Snake, It Would Have Bit You.

Daemons were not part of Philip Pullman’s original idea for the Golden Compass. And understanding this may have saved the novel I’m working on.

The New Normal is Pretty Much Like the Old, with Scratches

Scary as hell living in Brooklyn, the deadliest place on earth for Covid-19. For a few grim weeks.

Speculative Fictions

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy, Writing Now

My brain is hurt by all the stuff I’ll probably miss.

Success is a Lousy Teacher

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy, Writing Now

Success is a Lousy Teacher or, how success is reached by climbing a stairway built of failures

Out of the blue
When the world turns upside down in an instant, where do you go from there?

by wlancehunt in Personal Narrative, psychology

The armed troops and the ID cards are gone now, but low-flying planes are still unnerving.

A Year After “the Event”

Resilience after 9-11—it’s about what happens in the mind as much as on the ground.

Could You Become a Monster to Kill One?

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy

The layers are thick and deep in this story. Expect things to change. Often. Unexpectedly. Yet precisely the way they must. Once you know enough.

Killing Your Little Darlings

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy, Writing Now

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” —William Faulkner   Yes, this post will be about wholesale slaughter.      Of words, characters, and ideas.      Of little darlings—all those great lines, tightly written paragraphs, wonderfully surprising sub-plots, or dashing characters that please the writer, but will bore, or worse, confuse the reader.      I’ve never enjoyed […]

Revelations and Unexpected Shifts

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy

knowing her as well as we do, having watched her survive her brutal childhood, pull off one audacious mission after another, we know this won’t last. Then, things get worse.

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