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Working up to Spider Climb
Working up to Spider Climb
I love finding a Spider Climb spell. What does that mean? Spider Climb is a spell thatâs been in Dungeons & Dragons since some of the gameâs earliest editions, and it does just what it sounds likeâlets someone climb walls or âwhatever a spider can.â âYes, I was a Spider-Man comics fan even before that. But this is different. What gets my juices flowing here as a gamer, reader, and writer isâŚ
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Skein magic and its uses (from Dragonsigns)
Skein magic and its uses (from Dragonsigns)
Notes of Mateo Vargas, Rayo Hill, 1977 Substance has been referred to as âskeinâ (pronounced skayn) â reasons unconfirmed. Color: deep green, with a silvery sheen to it. Consistency⌠Thereâs the question, isnât it? The skein can appear as a thick liquid or putty, and then harden to something stronger than steel. And its strength and its very shape can change, driven by the thoughts of the personâŚ
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The Fights of Fantasy
The Fights of Fantasy
What makes a good fight? âIn a story, of course, since in real life the best fights are the ones that donât happen. But what makes a fictional clash worth reading? And we do find them worth reading, watching, playing. Of course theyâre a staple of storytelling since theyâve been all too real a force in real history. But, in a story they take on an extra kind of appeal. Since Iâm writing booksâŚ
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When is a COVID story not a COVID story?
When is a COVID story not a COVIDÂ story?
How does someone write in a year like this?
A year that provides a steady supply of â2020â jokes, a lot of them along the lines of the âapocalypse of the month office pool.â A year that keeps me reminding myself itâs really just one eventâthat one historian called the biggest world-changer since World War IIâtriggering and interacting with other forces that were in the works before the outbreak.
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It's All Character
Itâs All Character
Itâs the absolute favorite word in storytelling. And the one least understood.
Ask writers or fans âWhich is more important, characters orââ and you donât even have to finish the sentence. People will answer âcharacters!â, eagerly, fiercely, and theyâll reference everyone from Samwise Gamgee to Hamlet.
But, what makes a good character?
My thought is: everythingin the story, including parts thatâŚ
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Tracks In Shadow and other points of light
Tracks In Shadow and other points of light
Live in the shadows. Hide the fact that you can track people and secrets from across the street, and that you use that power to uncover lies and corruption. Let nobody know youâre searching for answers.
That was how Paul Schuman lived in Shadowed. But what happens when he starts to find those answers?
How far would Paul go to find the people his power came from? What would he risk, if after hisâŚ
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The Spellkeeper Boxset
Itâs here! Today, the complete Spellkeeper Flight trilogy (The High Road, Freefall, and Grounded) are out as a single ebook boxset.
If you havenât seen how this story begins with street gangs and a hint of something else above the street⌠and escalates with different magic, darker threats, and the shifting bonds between newly-fledged heroes (or those not so heroic) and longtime masters in whatâsâŚ
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What I Write
If you look through my stories, youâll see there are certain things I try to provide. Here are seven of them.
 âWhat do you want?â
âThatâs such a marvelous question. It can be the seed to a beautiful memory, or the offer that calms a terrorist. It can delight, seduce, or reassure⌠and of course it can map out which of thousands of genres and styles each of us want to spend our nights curled upâŚ
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That Note from a Fan
That Note from a Fan
Fans.
Theyâre the second great joy in writing. I can spend months or years exploring a story and falling in love with every twist of the road my characters are on⌠and even after that, I also get to hear from other people who like it too.
A couple of weeks ago, The High Road got the kind of response that can keep a writer awake at night. Itâs a reviewfrom a long-time Bookbub reviewer. Five stars,âŚ
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Freefall Cover Reveal
The countdown to FREEFALL continues. February 5th the book will be out, but: take a look at the cover:
Gorgeous, isnât it?
You might notice that unlike the first bookâs cover, this time Markâs flying in broad daylight, with only a bit of white blurring around him. That could be a serious change in magicâs place in the world⌠or it could just mean heâs got someone to raise a blizzard around him.âŚ
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Freefall in February -- Launching
Freefall on February 5th -- one book launching, one book free, and the answer to that cliffhanger excerpt at the end of The High road
Happy New Year!
Itâs the traditional day for reflecting, plannning, and promising⌠followed by the traditional month of backsliding, of course.
In the spirit of breaking that cycle:
FREEFALL, Book Two of Spellkeeper Flight, will be launched on February 5th. After long months of tweaking, the book is ready, the coverâs being set up (stay tuned!), and Iâm looking forward to sharing it withâŚ
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When The High Road started on a Tower â a Deleted Opening Scene
When The High Road started on a Tower â a Deleted Opening Scene
Can an opening scene be too⌠distinctive?
Thereâs a line writers love to quote, that when a piece of writing doesnât work we need to âkill our darlings.â (Or âmurderâ them; either way there needs to be blood.) Itâs good advice, even when the darlingis a scene of a madman ready to crush steel at hundreds of feet above street level, and other strange and delightful moments that donât go quietlyâŚ
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Whispered Secrets and Recorded Magic
Whispered Secrets and Recorded Magic
It can be a first step to telling a story that shows more than the obvious, and one I always look for on a pageâand kick myself if one of my own scenes neglects it. Itâs the mark of atmosphere, of surprise, of emphasis. Itâs hinted at in my writerâs motto, up there at the top of this site. And it can mean one other thing about how writing resonates with me that Iâm about to share with you all.
SoâŚ
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Secrets of Suspense - Shadowed's "Birdseed Scene"
Secrets of Suspense â Shadowedâs âBirdseed Sceneâ
âWhen your psychic senses are fading and the gangsterâs lair has the perfect defenses, how do you break in with birdseed and a rock?â
Thatâs my Twitter profile, and Iâve always liked how it challenges my characters to own the moves they make, and challenges me to write suspense and surprises worth reading. So today Iâm going to walk through the steps of that caper sequence, along with some of theâŚ
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Sources of Magic â Part 2
Sources of Magic â Part 2
If you know where something comes from, it gives you a head start on guessing where itâs going, doesnât it? So when youâre reading or writing a fantasy tale, understanding just where that set of magicians draws their magical energy from can point to some of its best storylines.
In the other partof this list I mused on the idea that seemed like the simplest (until we look closer), that powerâsâŚ
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A little Summer Reading
A little Summer Reading
CONFESSIONS of SYLVA SLASHER by Ace Antonio Hall
SPRING BREAK GETS WILD ON THE LIVELIEST CRUISE IN THE PACIFIC UNTIL THE UNDEAD CRASH THE PARTY.
Eighteen-year-old Sylva Fleischer and her friends raise the dead for a living for police investigations and mourning families. Two years after her high school crush, a hot guy named Brandon, is assumed dead, Sylvaâs friends convince her to go on aâŚ
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Sources of Magic â Part One
Sources of Magic â Part One
Where does magic come from?
Itâs something Iâve noticed in more and more stories: some go further than others in explaining just how someoneâs supernatural power is, well, powered. I donât mean the rules for who can use it and how, or the history behind it. I mean whether magicâs defined as drawing on some particular source that acts a little like actual fuel, or if it âworks like magicâ with allâŚ
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