If you know me at all, or have read back at all in this blog, you will know that I cannot stay away from Fie Eoin for too long. Even the day before NaNo started this past year and I should have been working on Phooka Tales I was instead storylining Fie Eoin. Most of […]
It’s a little late in the day, but I did say I would be posting again starting in January – and gosh darn it, it’s January! I know, how did that happen already? The first sticky of this year (the first sticky in almost a year, in fact) comes from Phooka Tales, my Nano-Novel from
I can see already that keeping on the Sunday schedule for my stickies is going to become difficult as the summer grows. It is too beautiful here to sit at the computer for any long amount of time. This week’s sticky is from the beginning of Fie Eoin. If you haven’t visited www.stickynotestories.com yet and
Last weekend was Easter, and I wasn’t able to get a sticky up. I apologize. This weekend’s sticky comes from a National Geographic article arguing that the water stored in dams and reservoirs is keeping sea levels from rising at the normal rate. This, in turn, is causing faulty data about the actual amount of water available to
Last year for our one year anniversary, my husband took me on a surprise trip to Oregon’s coast. It was amazing, and it was almost exactly as I had pictured the countryside surrounding Fie Eoin. It gave me a clearer picture of what the mountains would look like, and especially what the coast would look like.
Another sticky that comes from my musings on mythology in the context of Fie Eoin. This time I was working on the Hero Myth, in which one person (the hero) goes on a journey (physical, mental, or emotional), has to fight against many things, and ends up with some gift for the community. In this
Back to Fie Eoin this week. I recently bought a book called A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong. It breaks down myth archetypes by the type of society that people live in, starting from hunter/gatherers and moving all the way through current day myths. For a quick look at the archetypes, it has
If you’ve read the About Me page, or been to the website, www.stickynotestories.com, you know that I work in a radiochemistry lab. We were just starting to receive samples from England this past fall when I came up with this week’s sticky note story, Phooka Tales. It’s about a girl who works in a
If you have been reading every week, you already know that I’m a bit of a holistic self-healer (meaning I once had no health insurance and had to find alternative ways to heal myself, and picked up some books on herbal healing and aromatherapy oils). This works out really well, because I write mostly fantasy/historical
I love fight scenes. I don’t mean swords and guns and blood (although I do enjoy my fair share of those as well), but yelling, screaming, name-calling goodness. I love the conflict between two people on opposite sides, who both think they are in the right. I love exploring both sides of the argument, and