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Paul Newman and What Being an Artist Means to Me
A Different kind of post this week: For those of you who somehow missed it in the news this weekend, actor and activist Paul Newman died on Friday at the age of eighty-three. Newman has always been...
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Quoth the Raven…
I’m supposed to blog today… About writing. Factual stuff. Stuff you guys can use. And all I can think about, all I can remember is the raven…. See, there was this raven (I blogged about in my MySpace,...
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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...
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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...
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Research — Looking at Other Art Forms
From the very beginning of my time here at Magical Words, I’ve advocated reading outside of genre. Not that we shouldn’t read within genre, too — we should — we must. But rather that, in addition to...
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Coming Out Of The Dark
January is never my favorite month. The holidays are over, so all the pretty decorations are gone. It’s cold and damp and there’s not anything in particular to look forward to. So my mood tends to...
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