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What Will You See When You Look Up?

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 by Stace Dumoski
playing cards laid out for a solitaire game, except one card has been replaced by a phone displaying a photo of a card

You went for a walk today, early, the sun still climbing over the horizon, making orange creamsicle swirls in the clouds to the east. It’s the first time in weeks

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Find the Magic digital detox Leave a comment

First Line Follies: What Makes a Great First Line?

Posted on November 24, 2024 by Stace Dumoski
photo of open medieval illuminated manuscript

This post was first published in my newsletter. Why not subscribe? On a lark, I decided to write down the first lines of all the books I’ve read in the

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Writing Lessons Fantasy Literature, writing craft, writing help, writing tips Leave a comment

Magic, Maps and Monsters (Why I Love Fantasy, Part 2)

Posted on April 11, 2024 by Stace Dumoski
stylized fantasy banners

I was going to write about Why Fantasy is Great(TM), but as I was putting together a mental outline of what I wanted to include, I realized that what I

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Fantasy Studies Fantasy Aesthetic, Fantasy Literature, Fantasy Movies and Tv, Why I Love Fantasy Leave a comment

Me, Myself & the Audience

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Stace Dumoski
single orange poppy against a field of goldfields

A version of this post was originally published on September 16, 2007. A friend, Gaby, had asked me to answer her questions about writing and creativity, and I was responding

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Writing Lessons Artifacts, creativity, motivation, personal reflection, writers block, writing help, writing tips Leave a comment

I 3D Printed a Unicorn Horn and Now I Feel Cheap

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Stace Dumoski
a plastic unicorn horn sitting on top of a dresser

Working at a university has a lot of perks, and one of the newest is access to the makerspace in the engineering school. When I heard that there was going

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Find the Magic 3d printing, always be making something, art, crafts, unicorn Leave a comment
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Stace Dumoski

Fantasy Writer & Editor