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Entreaty From One Who Received Your Attentions

To those whose wanderlusting leads to more-than-lust...

By C.W. Spalding To those whose wanderlusting leads to more-than-lust for those tile-laid ways; for those whose chests shrug against their sweat caressed shirts when they first witness cherub- haunted dome-tops; and for those whose thighs throb to tightness as they draw their fingers over dusted altars’ dressings we encourage you to bind yourself to the celibacy of well-walked…

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Esca, Her House, And The Person Who Jiggles The Doorknobs

Molars make excellent decorations, if only one knows how to arrange them. - Esca

Part 1 Molars make excellent decorations, if only one knows how to arrange them. Esca, personally, liked to add them to the taxidermied heads of the years-dead deer which adorned her mansion’s walls. Nothing unsettled guests more than molars and Esca made it a point to keep her company on edge so as to soothe her own nerves. This very same tactic had served her well over the years, starting from…

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Tale Foundry: False Face/Lying Voice

Original Post on Tale Foundry Rut’s Beautiful Daughter The faeries took Rut on her wedding night and her husband was none the wiser. Apparently logs served just as well as a woman, or so the faeries swore. The sprite-things whisked her away to Connla, took her name, and set her to raise a troll-child they called Scáthach. “Your hair brings faeries,” Rut’s mother always told her when she was…

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Tale Foundry: Sacred Geometry

Original Post on Tale Foundry The Sacred Shape of XuralysBy C.W. Spalding In the age of eight aspects—fifth age of goddess Xuralys, tenth eon after shape disfigured chaos—Ruvoque took up a dirk. Chaos was held a bay, but not overcome. For all creatures must lose the shape of Xuralys; and return to the sableblood sky as nothing more than rot. Thus Ruvoque went to the Tetrahedron for sacred…

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The Wanderlogue

Wren wrote everything. She told herself stories before breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She said them under her breath and she said them in her head. She said them in her language and in someone else’s. But however she said them, they always ended up in the Wanderlogue beneath her pillowcase. The Wanderlogue helped her remember and allowed her to forget. “I walked along the riverbank and met a…

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Tale Foundry: Work Hazard

Original Post on Tale Foundry’s Page The OvenBy C.W. Spalding On the oven hung a sign which read “Do Not Enter.” Petre passed it every day as he loaded up the trolleys. The wheeled devices were so heavy, running in their treads like a train on a rail, and each one was chocked full of uncooked morsels of chicken. Each trolley was filled, pushed in, sealed up, and then set to bake. “You about…

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Tale Foundry: Creature

https://thetalefoundry.com/2021/03/08/writing-group-an-odd-little-creature/#comment-15096 Leviathanslayer Its teeth were like half-eaten apples: yellow and highly compostable. So Wynless buried them between the petunias and the lilies. As fertilizer. They sat, thirty whole, thirty needling teeth no larger than her pinky’s tip. And sprinkling them over the naked dirt she saw them wriggling…

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Tale Foundry Post :)

https://thetalefoundry.com/2021/03/01/writing-group-staring-into-their-eyes/#comment-14864 His Eye Catching Jukaugh’s eyes had always been an unfair contest for Riley. How could she catch his seven when she had only two? And yet… “Are you sure?” Riley asked with anticipation. He blinked, one eye after the other, no two closing at once. She usually looked at the two that most easily matched…

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Phicreb-Nu

This is worldbuilding for my current WIP: The Expertise. Since it’s not going to appear in the main plot, I figured I’d publish it here for funsies. Please enjoy. By C.W. Spalding In the post-partum of Nume—the beginning of His separation, when His hand first ripped up the meat of His own belly—the cavity of His abdomen grew sloppish. It was from His first rib to His groin that there emerged an…

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Fanfic Is

Fanfic is whatever you make it out to be. You cannot claim a whole genre of literature is bad: not romance, not sci fi, not fantasy, not contemporary. There will always be gems, no matter where you go, you merely need the tools to find them. I personally slam on Disney for fanfictioning themselves to death. But, fanfiction does have a place. Here are three things you would learn if you took two…

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Disney is Fanfic

Hot take: Disney remakes are fanfic. Let me tell you why. Who in Disney isn’t aspiring to the glory of those good old classics? Those money busters. Those idea exploders. And those story spinners. The original Disney had their issues. But I loved them (don’t know about you). Fan fiction is written by a fan of the original movie. Looking at interviews with the directors that remade these…

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What Was Promised

Arguably, one of the most important things while writing is keeping your promises. Now, what do I mean when I say promises? I am referring to something which the reader anticipates based on the genre or your storytelling. Not keeping promises is one of the reasons why so many story twists fall short. When you fail to keep promises, you fail your readers and you’ll leave them feeling dissatisfied.

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Fanfic: Sharing With Respect

Have you ever used an image that’s protected under creative commons? Well, I personally think they’re the bee’s knees because holy moly those things are so useful. And there are a bajillion levels of nuance to those bad boys. There are so many levels of permissions that people can tag onto their artwork to try and protect it how they’d like it to be protected.

And…

Artist’s creative desires…

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My Patreon

Maybe you’ve seen some posts on here you’ve enjoyed and wish that you had more content like this on your website? Or, perhaps you just want to finally see me writing some fantasy (since I’m probably all talk and no action, right.)? Or, maybe you wanna read snippets from my current works? You’re welcome to hop onto my patreon which I’m just now starting in earnest.

I’ve got the lowest tier set…

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Plot Twists Should Twist Less and Plot More

Sometimes a twist comes at the expense of plot. And it hurts, so much. Because sometimes a story doesn’t need a twist to be good. So, here are some tips and/or things to avoid when making a plot twist.

The Rule Of Three

I’ve heard writers say that the drafting process exists to make you look like you knew what you were doing all along. As such, the rule of three applies here. If you don’t…

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Harrow the Ninth Review

Lesbian necromancers in space continues to amaze.

This book didn’t pull any punches and had me silently screaming from page one.

After reading Gideon the Ninth it was a very anxious month waiting for the release of the sequel, Harrow the Ninth. And when it arrived, I devoured it. Because it was excellent.

First of all, all that was promised with the world-building in book one continued…

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