A Glimpse Beneath the Veil: Worlds Within Worlds #1
Worlds Within Worlds is the working title of a series of writings that are shaping themselves into a story without my conscious direction. These are essentially unedited first drafts that I have made no attempt to shape with my conscious mind. Please comment on whatever aspect you would like. An introduction to the series and a list of the posts in order (should you want to begin at the beginning) is on the Writer’s World page. virtual-suiseki-museum.org. A Glimpse Beneath the Veil: Worlds Within Worlds #1 Ordinary reality peels away, as if some cosmic hand wipes a film from my eyes. The sounds of cicadas, frogs, crickets and trickling water take on a vibrancy that thrums through my being like a mantra. Ripples from the gentle waterfall spread across the pond like the vibrations of my mind spreading to all humanity and beyond. Never have I seen grass so green, or such a…
The best fantasy illuminates reality & highlights truth.
The best fantasy is real. This might sound like a contradiction in terms but it’s not, simply because fantasy must be believable or it won’t quite work. That doesn’t mean that the fantasy can’t be wildly outrageous and bizarre, it can, but the characters have to act and react like people, and cause and effect must operate logically and consistently within whatever world the author has created, or it simply won’t work. That’s what I mean by ‘real’. Characters have to do things for clear reasons and in line with their motivations, otherwise the story won’t make sense. And if those characters, be they automatoms, walking plants or whatever don’t have humanlike feelings and reactions, or at least ones we can understand and feel for, we just won’t care about them, and if we don’t care, we won’t engage with the story. But, the very best fantasy goes even further…
Guest post on Krisi Keley’s blog.
I wrote a guest post for M-Award winner Krisi Keley (author of ‘On the Soul of a Vampire’) on her blog. It’s about soul, the aspect of her book that won her the M-Award and how Ariel’s vision in Lethal Inheritance relates to the concept of soul. Don’t forget to read my last post on what makes you want to read a book again. I’d love to know what you think. I had to post these two together because I’m on holiday and have one hour in the local library today, and I won’t be back in town until Saturday.