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Myriorama Cards to Print

by Eva, in category Printables

Myriorama cards are slices of landscape paintings that can be arranged in any order to form continuous scenes. TheyΒ were invented in the early 19th century by the French artist,Β Jean-Pierre BrΓ¨s, as a genteel amusement and an aid to practice drawing composition. I first heard Sir Philip Pullman recommend them for writing inspiration in his BBC… Read More

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Northern Lights / Golden Compass Word Crawl

by Eva, in category NaNoWriMo, Writing Prompts
The Secret Commonwealth & Lyra's Oxford

The new His Dark Materials TV series started today! But that’s no excuse to shirk our writing duties… especially if, like me, you’re currently engaged in writing 50,000 words a month for NaNoWriMo. Complete this word crawl to enjoy Northern Lights (and your own story) in a new light… What is a word crawl? A… Read More

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Alethiometer Studies 101

by Eva, in category Books, Printables
Alethiometer Cards

To celebrate the launch of The Secret Commonwealth, I thought I would share this deck of alethiometer cards I created.Β As alethiometers are even rarer in our world than in Lyra’s, I hope these cards can help you hone your skills in their stead. Click here to download the cards (ZIP) Printing Your Cards I recommend… Read More

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The Underworld and How to Use it in Your Story

by Eva, in category Mythology
Writing The Underworld

The underworld is perhaps the most important motif in mythology and literature – tied up with ideas about life, the afterlife, belief, culture, storytelling, and the psyche, it’s the setting of humanity’s reckoning with the ephemeral nature of mortality.

As writers, we can use the motif of the underworld in two aspects:

The underworld as world of adventure
The underworld as world of the dead

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How to Navigate Writer’s Block

by Eva, in category The Writer's Life, Writing Worksheets
Writer's Block

Despite having received hundreds of emails from writers asking me if I knew how to overcome writer’s block… I remained a skeptic. I simply didn’t believe in writer’s block. I thought it was a phrase made up to excuseΒ writers who were too lazy or unmotivated to sit down and do what they loved. Now that… Read More

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πŸ“• Current progress on my gothic/DA novel, π•­π–‘π–†π–ˆπ– 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗: SLOW.
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If you’d like some help preparing, you can find a link to these Preptober prompts in my NaNo story highlights.
I think I’m going to be rebelling for the 2nd year in a row and working on my gothic/dark academia novel, π•­π–‘π–†π–ˆπ– 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗. πŸ–€
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✨ "People who find resonant heroic themes of cha ✨ "People who find resonant heroic themes of challenges and questing in their own lives, in their goals, creative outpourings, in their day- and night-dreamsβ€” are being led to a single psychic fact. That is, that the creative and spiritual lives of individuals influence the outer world as much as the mythic world influences the individual." - Clarissa Pinkola EstΓ©s
βœπŸ»β˜•οΈ I've finished proofreading my looong article, and it's now available for students of the One Page Novel course. You can find it under, 'Advanced Lessons'. I hope it gives you some enticing new ideas to work with! πŸ–€πŸ“šπŸ€―
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I asked the Midjourney AI to imagine a scene from I asked the Midjourney AI to imagine a scene from my gothic novel and I was blown away by the results! 🀯
This is so close to how I pictured the β€œOld Library” in my novel world. You can read a rough draft of the opening scene in my π•­π–‘π–†π–ˆπ– 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗 highlights.
If you’re a writer, there’s an abundance of inspiration to be found in the results of your own AI prompts, and also in scrolling (or searching) through others’ imaginations! πŸ’Ž
( πŸ‘‰πŸ» swipe to see the unedited quartet that Midjourney returned)
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