Cedar Sanderson's Blog, page 50

Folklore, Fantasy, and Fairy Tales

  I have a guest post over at Jimbo’s Awesome SFF Book Reviews. I delve into the research behind The East Witch, and indeed, all …

Odd Prompts: Wonderland

    I will sometimes get little flashes of fiction, scenes without any real setting or place. This one, I know belongs to Wonderland. But …

Apricot Cheese Scones

  My sister asked me when I posted a photo of these, ‘are they dry and heavy?’  No they are not! My scones rarely are, …

Papery Feeling

  It’s alive! But it can’t hear you… To understand that joke, you’ll need to read the bit Jimmie wrote about Frankenstein’s Monster in One …

Sunday Beautiful

  It’s supposed to be a day of rest. I’d like to say I’m spending it thusly, but my son has the house turned upside-down …

Neutral Good Elf Ranger

Last night, because couldn’t sleep, I wound up ploughing through a very long personality quiz to determine what kind of character I’d be if I …

TGIF

  I’m writing this ahead of time, so one presumes that I did, in fact, make it until Friday. If not, well…  I’m laughing. As …

A Quiet Anniversary

  Fifteen years and a few days ago, I published my first blog post. It was unashamedly a Mommy blog, because it was before any …

Back Burner

  I’ve been thinking about the idiom ‘back-burnering,’ because I’m having to do a lot of that at work. I’m coming up on a week …

Odd Prompts: Cloudless Sky

  This is a snippet from a potential work in progress.  *** Rain fell from a cloudless sky. Sadie flicked an annoyed glanced upward, and …