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March 31, 2014
Tuesday Poem: “State Highway 1″
State Highway 1 stretching south —
Christchurch
slipping from my shoulders
© Helen Lowe
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Toward the end of last year I spent upward of 5 weeks in a remote coastal location, working on my current book. I also wrote a number of haiku during that time, which I have been featuring as Tuesday Poems. Last week I told you the featured haiku was the last in the series, but in fact that wasn’t quite right — although it takes the final place in the current sequence, this one was actually the first written....
March 30, 2014
Last Gasp On “Daughter Of Blood”
…but almost there!
“And that was all she wrote.” (Where does that expression come from?”)
March 29, 2014
Writing, Writing…
Yup, still writing on… Can you smell the smoke from burning tyres as we race pell-mell for the finish line?
March 28, 2014
A Quote For Saturday, From Henry David Thoreau
“There is no remedy for love except to love more.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
March 27, 2014
A Geography Of Haarth: Rindle
The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick
The A Geography of Haarth post series is traversing the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. Each locale is accompanied by a quote from either The Heir Of Night, The Gathering Of The Lost, or both.
This week, the series continues with locales under “R.”
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Rindle: a river in the Northern March of Emer
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“The night grew cold as the stars changed position above them and the track alternately climbed and plung...
March 26, 2014
Still Beavering…
Yup, still writing furiously to make that stretch goal of finishing Daughter Of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three by 1 April.
You can toot if you like, to show your support! 
March 25, 2014
Big Worlds On Small Screens: Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Sleepy Hollow”
~ by Rebecca Fisher
Introduction:
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when this show was pitched to network executives. It’s almost impossible to come up with a more outlandish premise: taking The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, a spooky short-story about a nebbish school-teacher called Ichabod Crane who may or may not have been killed by a headless horseman, and conjecturing that said teacher was a British spy in the Revolutionary War, that the Headless Horseman was...
March 24, 2014
Tuesday Poem: “after you leave”
after you leave
sun falling
across the wall
© Helen Lowe
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Toward the end of last year I spent upward of 5 weeks in a remote coastal location, working on my current book.
I also wrote a number of haiku during that time, which I have been featuring as Tuesday Poems. This is the final haiku in the sequence.
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To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.
March 23, 2014
Beavering…
No more of a post than this today, because am beavering with the book…Daughter Of Blood that is!
March 22, 2014
A Last Observation On Mary Stewart’s “Madam, Will You Talk”: So What Does Date It, Then?
I’ve now completed three posts on Mary Stewart’s Madam, Will You Talk, on March 5, 19, and 20th respectively — and have argued that despite being published in 1955 it stands the test of time pretty well.
There is one element that really does date it though, dear readers — and I wonder if you guess even before you read on…
Absolutely everyone smokes. It’s pretty much a universal given in the story that at moments of stress, reflection or simply as a matter of course, every character will light u...
