I have a lot of aspirations to have, not exactly a fancy house, but a nice house, one that matches my own sense of aesthetics and personal preferences. But, as anyone who has a house but does not have a personal decorator and the budget to match knows, getting there is a lot of work and time and effort. Since I’ve got lots of other things I also want or need to spend my work and time and effort on,…
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where everything is taking a moment to remember what rain is like.)
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 17 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… The black river water swirled them up, flecks and pieces of black chiton flashing within the ripples of moonlight, tiny, white moons of hosts’ eyes closed away…
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where we had some very refreshing (brief) snow.)
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 16 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… The stars, when he could look up and see the sky again, showed barely an hour had passed below, and then that it was barely a quarter…
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Still wavering between winter dry and spring blooming.)
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 15 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Then, because they were watching for it, Ki and Du saw what happened next, even if most of the crowd saw only the blind-seeming Queen turn and…
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which has firmly declared spring!)
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 14 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… When all that could be learned had been learned, the conscript stood and walked away, breathing easily, knowing that they did not need to come to this…
Once again, I’d like to explore a little more of the idea that encountering an example of bad writing by someone else can actually provide an excellent opportunity to improve your own writing. (My previous discussion about this is here.) As a writer, it’s always important to read plenty, both for enjoyment (of course!) and to have a lot of examples to draw from of what sort of writing is to your taste. But when you come across something that…