Laurie J. Marks
@lauriejmarks.bsky.social
Fantasy novelist. Author of the Elemental Logic series, Dancing Jack, and The Watcher's Mask.
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I’ve been saying this all over the other place, but I should say it here where @kellylink.bsky.social actually is. Her new novel is everything I’d hoped it would be and more.
January 30, 2024 at 6:36 PM
I’ve been saying this all over the other place, but I should say it here where @kellylink.bsky.social actually is. Her new novel is everything I’d hoped it would be and more.
lauriejmarks.blog/2024/01/30/a... New Blog post: "Every sentence begins with a stressed syllable, DUH duh. DUH duh. I’m trying to make you feel how Painter receives a bit of input, then struggles to process it: Darkness. (Where?) Desperate coughing. (Huh?) Thunderous pounding. “What?”
Action! Inaction!
Every sentence begins with a stressed syllable, mostly alternating stressed and unstressed: DUH duh. DUH duh. (Yep, trochaic rhythm.) I’m trying to make you feel how Painter receives a bit of inpu...
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January 30, 2024 at 7:43 PM
lauriejmarks.blog/2024/01/30/a... New Blog post: "Every sentence begins with a stressed syllable, DUH duh. DUH duh. I’m trying to make you feel how Painter receives a bit of input, then struggles to process it: Darkness. (Where?) Desperate coughing. (Huh?) Thunderous pounding. “What?”
New blog post: lauriejmarks.blog/2024/01/23/w... I was a sad person, composing a first-person narrative that was fictionally composed by a sad fictional person. I didn’t have to look far to know what sadness feels like, but to express that feeling--while feeling it--wasn’t easy.
Writing While SAD
I was a sad person, composing a first-person narrative that was fictionally composed by a sad fictional person. I didn’t have to look far to know what sadness feels like, but to express that feeli...
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January 23, 2024 at 8:27 PM
New blog post: lauriejmarks.blog/2024/01/23/w... I was a sad person, composing a first-person narrative that was fictionally composed by a sad fictional person. I didn’t have to look far to know what sadness feels like, but to express that feeling--while feeling it--wasn’t easy.
A few hours after my last blog post went live, Vera Zulumovski graciously gave me permission to include her linocut print, "Veiled Woman on a Balance Beam." Now you can read the post and view the print all in one place: wordpress.com/post/lauriej...
January 4, 2024 at 11:13 PM
A few hours after my last blog post went live, Vera Zulumovski graciously gave me permission to include her linocut print, "Veiled Woman on a Balance Beam." Now you can read the post and view the print all in one place: wordpress.com/post/lauriej...
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New blog post: "The light-scatter coalesces into a focused beam, and I can see my book’s multitude of flaws and failures. And that’s okay: Imperfections are rocks that form a path across a river. I step on them, thank them, and leave them behind."
New blog post: "The light-scatter coalesces into a focused beam, and I can see my book’s multitude of flaws and failures. And that’s okay: Imperfections are rocks that form a path across a river. I step on them, thank them, and leave them behind."
January 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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New blog post: "The light-scatter coalesces into a focused beam, and I can see my book’s multitude of flaws and failures. And that’s okay: Imperfections are rocks that form a path across a river. I step on them, thank them, and leave them behind."
New blog post: "The light-scatter coalesces into a focused beam, and I can see my book’s multitude of flaws and failures. And that’s okay: Imperfections are rocks that form a path across a river. I step on them, thank them, and leave them behind."
No wonder we tell children that gifts are randomly carried down chimneys. It seems like a reasonably accurate fantasy story.
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Unintended Consequences
No wonder we tell children that gifts are randomly carried down chimneys. It seems like a reasonably accurate fantasy story.
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December 15, 2023 at 6:00 PM
No wonder we tell children that gifts are randomly carried down chimneys. It seems like a reasonably accurate fantasy story.
lauriejmarks.blog/2023/12/15/u...
lauriejmarks.blog/2023/12/15/u...