Speculative Fiction by Carin Marais
What a couple of weeks! I knitted more than I ever knitted before to help out a colleague and also wrote a lot – both for work and pleasure. What I’ve been up to work-wise Since I last wrote, I finished the knitting ebook (which you get when you buy a set of children’s knitting […]
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I’ve also made an editorial calendar and actually wrote it on the wall calendar in order to follow it while also seeing the bigger picture…
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I already had the idea of the Stone being covered in runes, but looking more like Mesopotamian tablets (think Sumerian and Babylonian); only bigger. Enter the Code of Hammurabi.
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I ended up going with a kind of “in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded” (thank you, Pratchett!) kind of creation story and then zoomed in on the planet/world of Airtha-Eyrassa.
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Okay… so that was March flitting by faster than a Will o’ the Wisp… To say that I didn’t do everything I wanted to this March (fiction writing wise) is an understatement. Well, okay, word count-wise it was a flop. Thinking about stories and outlining Stuff was much more productive. Turns out that I did […]
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I do have a few main projects that I’ll be working on during the year and these are a radio drama, Porselein, The Knowledge Stones, Grove of Graves, and Charms of Life and Death, The last three of these are part of The Ruon Chronicles.
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Here is some information about the Knowledge Stones which come to play such an integral role in the Ruon Chronicles.
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Or, This is taking longer than expected Since the previous update I, on the one hand, don’t feel like I’ve written that much, but that is because I have mostly been outlining and going over timelines for specifically The Ruon Chronicles. The timeline for Porselein is still small enough for me to just have some […]
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Can you believe we’re in the thick of autumn here in the southern hemisphere already? Although, I’m already working on July mags at work, so my mind is a bit split in two and apparently have decided that it’s June. (Mostly because I worked on weekly mags for 8 years and my brain seems a […]
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Or, some days… the dragon wins. Sometimes it feels as if I am taking one step forward and two steps back when it comes to my writing. Not that I suddenly suck one day (I mean, obviously some stories don’t quite work, but I don’t mean that), but it’s like the month that there is […]
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