in my head he sings the summer and calls the moon in my mind he uses verse a tool that could be used to terrify or flood gates and heartstrings but the timbre now is only rain falling steadily surely unrelentingly surely not I’m afraid so his heartblood drips over mine floodgates just so the … Continue reading
Author Archives: Aine Crabtree
chaos pages
The primordial word soup I was talking about a couple posts ago has a name – chaos pages. This is my new way of sketching out a scene. It feels really right. Right now I’m working on chaos pages for the opening of R+S. I don’t want to introduce too many characters too quickly, but … Continue reading
little did he know
a post on subtlety Subtlety in prose is a fine balance of two things – beauty, and respect for the intelligence of your readers. When you reveal things, you want them to feel surprising, but also correct. That sounds spectacularly daunting to me, but it’s something I want to attempt. The effect of finding out … Continue reading
in which prose goes primordial
I may have stumbled upon a great way to outline a scene. I’ve been wanting to find a way to get whole scenes on paper in a faster way – you know, sort of shorthand, such that I’m not spending all my time on one scene that will inevitably get changed as I make others. … Continue reading
Archetype intro
So yeah. That project I’m working on. Working title of Archetype, currently planning to have a series of 5 books. Wanted to give a little bit of an intro to the project without giving away all my secrets…boy do I hate spoilers. Don’t you? I started working on this project in earnest in November of … Continue reading
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