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DANDELIONS MYTHS AND FOLKLORE

 It is said that if you make a wish immediately before blowing a dandelion, your wish just might come true. Another belief was that the number of seeds left after blowing the seed head indicated the number of children that a girl would have in later life.

A common tale is that the number of seeds that were left represents time, giving rise to the term dandelion clock for the seed head. The dandelion flower opens an hour after sunrise and closes at dusk giving rise to the belief that it is...

Guest Posts

Author interviews: A MASSIVE 'Thank you' to:
Shirley Golden (Author) Guest Post ~ HEREA Lover of Books - Sonya Alford Guest Post ~ HEREChristina Philippou (Author) of 'Writing Round The Block' ~ (Professional Book Review) ~ HEREThe Debut Dish ~ 'A Debut Author Challenge' feature, is where you go for the scoop on some pretty awesome debut authors and their new books HERE.Book Blogging ~ Heroes and Heartbreakers.com ~ Romance Novel 'New Releases' 
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Great writing polarizes people ~ Stephen King on writing

Write as if no one in the world will ever read it.
Say exactly what you feel. Don’t think. Just get your thoughts out there in all their disheveled, chaotic glory.

This is what Stephen calls writing with the” door closed.” It’s just you and your work, nobody else, and it’s the first stage of writing.
The second stage is opening the door to the rest of the world — a metaphor for pondering how the average Joe might respond to your new creation and making the changes necessary to help it survive.

An...

Fancy popping over to the book website?

A Carpet of Purple Flowers Booklist Online / Netgalley Reviews: 
Fantasy fans will wait eagerly for the next installment in McCartney’s series, enchanted by the complicated love story and the surprising cliffhanger ending. — Amy Dittmeier, Booklist InternThis was a fabulous book, with excellent writing and a fascinating story. I would absolutely love to read anything else this author has to offer! ~ Jessie T, Reviewer

This is a creative romance/paranormal/fantasy that takes place in Lo...

Third Person Omniscient ~ Writing

Do people analyze the POV of books prior/while reading? 

One of the first most confusing debates I came across while writing concerned POV. I'll be honest, when I sat down to write 'A Carpet of Purple Flowers', I didn't stop to question what viewpoint I wanted to use. I just wrote the story. On editing the first draft, admittedly, a few areas needed correcting for 'head-hopping', mainly the fight scenes. Initially, it was an extremely wonderful beta-reader that mentioned the Omniscient po...

Adele - Hello / Lacrimosa (Mozart)

Hello/Lacrimosa (or “Chello,” as it has affectionately been called in the studio) is a musical experiment bridging 18th-century spiritualism and 21st-century secularism. Imagine Mozart and Adele in the same room in an intense co-write session, quill and pen in hand, respectively. Picturing this hypothetical hangout helped to spark the creative combination of the two.
Both tunes’ divergent traits presented challenges. One wallows in a wide, painstakingly minor 12/8 time and the other drives a p...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2016

A 19th-century drawing of the arms of Ireland.
Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, whose feast day is celebrated every 17 March. The March 17 celebration started in 1631 when the Church established a Feast Day honoring St. Patrick. He had been Patron Saint of Ireland who had died around the fifth century—a whopping 12 centuries before the modern version of the holiday was first observed. But very little is known about who he actually was, according to Marion Casey, a clinical assistan...

. Book Two ~ Awake in Purple Dreams ~ visual inspiration

Awake in Purple Dreams Photography ~ Miina Anahita Early Book Blurb Photography by Predrag Pajdic Calageata (Swangate) ~Weeping Sakura Tree of Hanazono at Tanagura Town with Mist ~ Takumi Nasuno Photography
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