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December 5, 2012
The Third Day of Kitsune – Wordless Wednesday kitsune images
I don’t usually do a Wordless Wednesday post — for one thing, I’m pretty bad at “wordless” — but here are some fantastic pictures I collected for research and inspiration while working on Kitsune-Tsuki and Kitsune-Mochi. If you like these, be sure to check out the Kitsune-Tsuki/Kitsune-Mochi Pinterest board! This is what Kaede-dono might have [...]
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December 4, 2012
The Second Day of Kitsune — Shift Your Shape with a Kitsune Costume
Kitsune are clever shapeshifters who can appear as a human. Today, we’re going to change our own appearances toward a kitsune costume. As some of you may have read, I am also a costumer, and I thought it might be fun to consider how I would approach a kitsune character. But I wanted it to [...]
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December 3, 2012
The First Day of Kitsune – a folk tale
For the First Day of Kitsune, I’d like to share one of the oldest and most common folk stories about a kitsune. It’s a tale of a fox wife, similar to Western stories of fairy brides, and it features many of the key points in the kitsune legend. It’s also a story the village girl [...]
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December 1, 2012
Storylines and Plot Beats – Rise of the Guardians
Warning! Here there be spoilers, in great measure. Also, plot dissection and narrative breakdown. As I have mentioned, I’m pretty out of touch with Hollywood, and the first I knew of the new movie Rise of the Guardians was seeing someone’s fan art of Jack Frost on Facebook. It was pretty good fan art, so [...]
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November 30, 2012
Twelve Days of Kitsune!
Christmas is one of my favorite holidays — but it wasn’t exactly popular during Heian and Kamakura eras in Japan, for obvious reasons. So here on the blog we’re going to celebrate Twelve Days of Kitsune, and each post we’ll discover a new folk tale, period foods, or other fun surprises related to Kitsune-Tsuki and [...]
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November 26, 2012
Things To Do While Waiting To Hear Back From an Agent
At one point in my storyShard & Shield, a character is waiting for his treason to be discovered. He knows it is only a matter of time before he is identified, seized, tortured, and executed, but in the meantime he must go about his daily business as if nothing is wrong, as if he fears [...]
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November 23, 2012
Catch a Kitsune at Anime Crossroads!
You can find the two-hour panel “Japanese Folklore & Mythology: A Primer for Anime, Manga, & Film” at Anime Crossroads on Dec 8. Admission is included with con badge. We’ll talk about Japanese folklore, supernatural creatures such as tengu and dragons and kitsune, why it’s smart to fart at a kappa, and when to greet [...]
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Pep Talk from Hell.
Someone on the NaNoWriMo chat group mentioned a technique in which a writer writes a pep talk from his or her characters. She said she had found it helpful. I hadn’t heard of the technique, but just the thought of it scared the snot out of me. At the moment she brought it up, for [...]
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November 21, 2012
The Next Big Thing (Week 25) — Shard & Shield
In which Laura reveals intimate answers to fascinating questions! Don’t miss a moment! Well, okay, so we’ve found the reason I am not a marketing copywriter. But stay with me a moment anyway. I was tagged by the very talented Nicole Amslerfor The Next Big Thing blog networking share, showcasing published and upcoming writers for [...]
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November 14, 2012
Foxes. Don’t mess with them.
I did quite a bit of fox research for Kitsune-Tsuki and Kitsune-Mochi, and I came across this clipping of a hunting trip gone wrong. I understand that people hunt, some for pleasure and some by necessity. (My husband grew up in an area where hunting provided much of some families’ diet.) But hunting should be [...]
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