A Faerie Story But Not the Kind You're Thinking
Phantastes by George MacDonald I started off my year of reading by deciding to read one of the books that inspired the books that had such a huge impact on me. Especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Lord of the Rings books. After the first few pages, it was already so clear where C.S. Lewis may have gotten the idea of stepping into a Faerie world running alongside ours but completely strange and foreign. And, many of the themes (of love, of good, of evil) not
Time to Begin or Time to Not
It's officially a new year, which can be daunting when you've spent the past two weeks with hardly a clue as to what day it is, what time it is or whether those things matter at all. If those things really don't matter, then you can eat dessert at any time without needing to think of more practical things like a proper meal first. Or mulling the Big Things like what you're doing with your life in The New Year. There's a lot of pressure to start something (that book you're alw
Writing during the Holidays
'Tis the season for wondering where the sun is, subbing dinner for chocolate and wine, a seemingly endless amount of gatherings and neglecting all your hard cultivated habits from the 11 months prior. Which includes writing. How could it not? The frivolous little stories you fritter away at are the easiest thing to ignore when you can't possibly do everything at once all month. You are NOT a machine. It would be so easy to let AI write this, you think during a particularly w
