Monthly Archives: January 2017

Comparison of two book printing experiences

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

For winning Camp NaNo in July last year I got a coupon for a discount on one printed copy of a book from BookBaby. When I won NaNo in November the year before that I got a coupon for a … Continue reading →

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Shadows of the Hersweald Cover Reveal

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

A friend of mine likes to write a novella in a fortnight just for the fun of the challenge, and one of the fruits of these efforts will be published soon. We exchange stories and things sometimes, and though I … Continue reading →

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Mainly about the bad guys

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

(By the way, I’ve added the first chapters of my three major works, and a short story, to my blog. If you put your mouse on the “Adventures in Various Worlds” page you’ll see them.) Today’s post is a collection … Continue reading →

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“Right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.”

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Previously I mentioned having trouble with a certain writing workshop I’m taking this semester. Postmodernism — the idea that everything is subjective, which differs from modernism mainly in that when modernism’s fallacies were pointed out, the Modernists were bothered by … Continue reading →

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Vers Libre: poesy set free from the shackles of formal metre

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

How to Write Modern Poetry Your subject: death. Or at least decay. Disease, depression, and insanity are Good (if you like to call them that) ideas too. To change an old phrase, “While we live, Let us die.” The old … Continue reading →

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Call for Beta-Readers

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

After a hectic start to school, an unexpected delay in the return of my family, and a blizzard, I finally return to the haunts of men. I could dump here all my thoughts concerning science and religion as they came … Continue reading →

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In the words of somebody, “I’d rather not. What else have you got?”

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Ever since I learned that it’s popular these days to write in the first person (write stories, that is, not things like letters and ordinary correspondence — this post is after all in first person), I’ve tried to avoid it … Continue reading →

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In the words of. . . in the words of. . .

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

I’m doing something a little different for a post today. My mother and sister are gone this week, leaving me and my father to take care of all our animals (two horses, three cats, a goat, a house rabbit, and … Continue reading →

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Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

Lately I’ve overheard people making offhand comments to the effect that “It was fiction, so [something like whether wyrms have two legs or four, or cyanide really tastes like bitter almonds, or why the sea is boiling hot, or whether … Continue reading →

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In Which I decide to do the normal thing and talk about the past month

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Nolie Alcarturiel

December was an unusually busy month. Decembers often are, what with Advent and Christmas and New Year’s Eve and all, but this one, perhaps because it’s freshest in memory, seems more so. Writing: This month I wrote very little, actually, … Continue reading →

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