Children of Ages

Two writer friends. One book-writing adventure. Some Norse mythology.

[zombeesknees]

angela barrett’s beauty and the beast

[nevver]

Tom Clark, “Heavy”

[childrenofages-blog]

When you realize that you have to trash an entire draft of your second book and begin writing it from scratch. 

[childrenofages-blog]

At it again

After much life upheaval, we're back at it again. Reading, writing, plotting. In the midst of rereading Bindrunes, we've got our brains looking toward re-plotting Blood Ties.

WHICH MEANS

We need good resources for plot ideas to create action and tension in scenes. Lists of possible things that could happen.

-someone cries -something explodes -there is a storm -something is stolen -someone tells a lie to hurt someone else -someone tells a lie to protect someone else

etc, etc.

Does anyone know of any good online resources that provide such a list?

[neirahda]

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[childrenofages-blog]

Kate would totally wear any of these. 

[oakcrestcr]

Bindrune Amulet

[fictionwritingtips]

The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.

Leo Tolstoy (via fictionwritingtips)

[omarjsakr-deactivated20200426]

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

Franz Kafka (via omarjsakr)

[littllemissmagic]

mythology meme | [4/5] OTPs

Loki and Sigyn

And after that Loki hid himself in Franang’s waterfall in the guise of a salmon, and there the gods took him. He was bound with the bowels of his son Vali, but his son Narfi was changed to a wolf. Skathi took a poison-snake and fastened it up over Loki’s face, and the poison dropped thereon. Sigyn, Loki’s wife, sat there and held a shell under the poison, but when the shell was full she bore away the poison, and meanwhile the poison dropped on Loki. Then he struggled so hard that the whole earth shook therewith; and now that is called an earthquake.

[brianwoodwardart]

"Valkyrie" 10x14 Arches hot press 140lb Daniel Smith watercolor 2014

It’s believed that the myth of the Valkyries as shapeshifters and “choosers of the slain” originated from the carrion beasts (ravens and wolves specifically) that would descend in a battle’s aftermath to feed on the battlefield’s dead.

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[elizabethminkel]

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C.S. Lewis, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” 1952

(via the comments section of TNR's excellent response to The Slate Article That Shall Not Be Linked To.)

[awritersruminations-deactivated]

Know this: I live beast days. I am a water hour. At night my eyelids droop like forest and sky. My love knows few words: I like it in your blood.

Gottfried Benn, “Threat” (via gatsbees)

[shaktilover]

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

Rumi (via creatingaquietmind)

[childrenofages-blog]

The latest from Children of Ages (@ChildrenofAges) Two women reporting on five teenagers, the end of the world, and the surprisingly true story of Norse mythology. Location: The woods

[unleash-the-krayken]

Cat

In world mythology, the domestic cat is often venerated or feared as a witch in disguise or as a witch’s “creature.” In Norse mythology, the goddess Freya, who had magical powers, had a chariot drawn by two gray or black cats

[childrenofages-blog]

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Joseph Campbell (via childrenofages)

[childrenofages-blog]

Just substitute "assistant professor position" with "book contract" and "department" with "publishing company" and we'll have ourselves a real humdinger. 

Thank you, sir. I reject your rejection.