Category: Writing
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Free Hockey Rom Com Novella available now!
If you love grumpy, Tarot-reading women, and goofy fun-loving hockey players then I suggest you get this spicy romantic comedy novella! Meet Maeve and Wyatt in this Brothers Best Friend, Black Cat/Golden Retriever prequel novella, when a dreaded Christmas party and tough life desicion drive these opposites to lose themselves in each other…just once… The…
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Story Roots: Setting the landscape for your characters to grow
Last week’s STORY ROOTS post was all about the protagonist as the mother tree that feeds every other character in the book, but we need to look closer now at this root structure and the environment in which these characters grow. Setting the landscape for your story is asking the big picture question you want…
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Story Roots: The Mother Tree of your story
The significance of trees and how their biology-inspired me to understand my own storytelling A charred and blackened tree stump sits in my yard like a gateway to a magical land or alternate universe. In truth, it’s a standing burnt tree from a forest fire that happened before I was alive. Trees give life to…
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Using Tarot to Write a Book
Tarot has been a part of my life since I was a teenager. Back then it was sleepovers and seances and scaring ourselves silly, but the cards always spoke to me in a much deeper way. I’ve been using Tarot for self reflection and shadow work for years, but last year I was stuck on…
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Books That Changed Me: Non-Fic edition
Most of the time when I read non-fiction, self-help-ish kind of books they are at worst a DNF and at best a way-too-long-winded reminder of things that I sort of already knew. But every once in a while a book comes along that alters the course of my life. Here are a few that have…
ALLISON MARTIN 