Category Archives: Writing

A Memory of Old Songs

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One thing I like to do now and then is take a flash story, generate illustrations, and put it on YouTube with my own narration. Something separate from the folklore. This piece is called “A Memory of Old Songs.” I think I’ll put them in a separate playlist and just call it “Story Time.”

The Seventh Law of Power is nearly 81k in rough draft now. I think it’s going to end in a…no, on second thought I don’t think I’ll commit to that just yet. But I do see it coming back full circle to Book1, The Long Look. How we get there is the fun part.

Robots of the Gods

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Setting the stage for the almost final piece of the puzzle in The Seventh Law of Power. I only now realized that the section I just finished doesn’t go where I wrote it. Oh, well. That’s what re-writes are for. I’ll worry about moving it then. Especially considering how long it’s taking me to write it, TSLOP won’t be a long book. Likely somewhere between 80-85k. I’m about to cross the 80k boundary, if that tells you anything.

In the meantime, here’s another one of my YouTube videos on mythological subjects. Mainly Hephaestos’ habit of making fully functional automatons (read: robots) whenever somebody needed a favor. Amazing how long this concept has been around. Robots of the Gods

Monstrous Assistance

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This is more overflow from the Yamada Monogatari series. Tons of research, only a fraction of which I used in the series. So not to waste it, here’s another YouTube Video. There will likely be more, so sign up over there if you don’t want to miss any.

And for those curious about the final book in the Laws of Power series, it’s actually coming down to the wire. Marta is very close to finding the Seventh Law. She’s going to feel very silly when she realizes just how close she’s been and for how long.

Arguing With Yeats

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I was working on an essay about a character from Irish/Scottish/Manx myth, the “Leanan-sidhe,” translated as “Fairy Mistress,” “Fairy Lover,” and sometimes “Fairy Wife.” It wasn’t just academic to me because I’ve written stories from both sides of the issue, which was: “Did she really exist (in folklore) or did William Butler Yeats” make her up? I think I know the correct answer now, though research is ongoing. Regardless, I thought the script would make a decent YouTube video, so that’s where I went with it.

Here’s the opening.

“There’s a line between folklore and simply making things up. William Butler Yates likely crossed it.”

For anyone interested the title is, as above, “The Deadliest Muse,” the link is here.