Daily Archives: August 15, 2014
Douglas Lathrop, RIP
Posted on August 15, 2014 30 Comments
Back in the wild and wolly days of the World Wide Web, I hung around on a newsgroup called alt.society.generation-x, where I made a number of online friends, some of whom became real world friends, with whom I kept in contact, sporadically, over the years. One of those was Douglas Lathrop, a fellow writer who very […]
The Big Idea: Carol Berg
Posted on August 15, 2014 4 Comments
For her novel Dust and Light, author Carol Berg takes a look at some of the more mundane aspects of magic — that’s “mundane” as in “practical,” not as in “boring” — and shows how a story can build from the rules and traditions a writer places on its use. CAROL BERG: Going in search […]
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