Unless you grew up near the sea this particular reference to a mermaid’s purse might leave you scratching your head. Malial was certainly confused. In reality, a mermaid’s purse does not really come from a mermaid it is something called Chondrichthyes which is a kind of egg sack. The mermaid’s purse …
While collecting mushrooms Malial encounters an urisk. What is an urisk and where are they found? The urisk is a mythical household spirit from English and Scottish folklore. You may be more familiar with another name that urisks are known by – the brownie. However, to the Lowland Scots, they were known as urisks so that is what we …
In a fit of productivity, I have published not one but two new entries for the story “Legend”. These two sections deal with what went wrong while Malial was searching for pearls and what he did about it. We also meet an important new character.
Sometimes, when you are writing, you want an oath or swear but without any actual swearing. In preparation for the time when I would need such a fictional word, I created a fictional dictionary with these words in it. For the last three or so years I have been collecting conjugated …
This post in response to the Thanet Creative Writers theme for the competition. It’s not an entry (that would not be fair) but I thought I would address the prompt anyway. Where do I even start? What mistakes don’t I make might be a shorter post. You see, I am a …
Hello, my one or two readers. I have updated both of my stories, each with a new chapter. That story with a cat in it That story with a cat in it has a new chapter – “In Which Much Tea is Consumed“. I noticed that the chapter navigation for …
About ten weeks ago I challenged the writers at Thanet Creative Writers to write about what gets them writing. This was not just so I could get variations of the word write four times in one legitimate sentence. I wrote an entry for that on my geek blog “What gets …
I think it is time for me to write yet another getting to know you post. To save a lot of time, I am going to sometimes point you to some posts I have already written for other blogs. I am a man who loves to write. Even when I …
In November 2016 I started work on a new story. I gave it a working title of “Dimensions and Parallel Universes with Jack” but after sharing it with my fellow writers at Thanet Creative Writers Tea and Chat it has become known as “that story with the cat in it“. I …
Congratulations, it’s a blog. Yes, it seems that I have created YAB – yet another blog. Unlike the complexities of The Author Buzz Developer blog, Author Buzz HQ, TCW, or any of the other blogs I write for, this blog is here to serve one single purpose. To allow me …
