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The Performance of Art
Creating art is difficult enough without an audience. Imagining a scene, trying to spin it out of your head and onto paper without losing too many of the details, not to mention the mistakes! Every piece has them, but when you’re alone in your studio, who’s going to notice later once you’ve painted over it?
Writing From ‘The End’
Writing From The EndMarissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles and Renegades series, is one of my all time favorite authors. I just love how she paints her worlds with rich details and gives us wonderful, life-like characters in anything but life-like situations....
Finding the Right Name When Your Characters Turn Shy
There’s nothing I love more than the beginning of creating a story. The allure of a lovely new idea. Turning it over in my mind like a puzzle box, looking for the way inside. Does this character connect with this one? No, false lead. How about this one? Oh…I like...
Meet Cor
Meet CorIf you’re thinking that there’s no way a reclusive man like Felix stands a chance of escaping a fixated huntress like Kla, well...you’d be right. On his own Felix has all the practical brains of a senile cocker spaniel. Fortunately he’s got two friends in the...
August Apples Art Class
"August Apples"Class is back in session! Yes, much to the relief of every parent ever, school is back and all is once again right with the world. Or should I say quiet…? But there’s more than the sudden corralling of the younger generation. Leaves will start...
Meet Kla
Meet KlaI have a riddle for you today. Ahem. "What’s a book without a bad guy?" The answer is boring. And if there’s one thing I know Kla hates, it’s feeling bored. Perhaps that’s why she gives Felix such trouble along the Hybridian Way. Or she just enjoys...
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