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Music Lessons

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Stace Dumoski
a 10-string lyre lying on a table next to a cup of tea

Originally published in June 2010. A while back, we attended an open rehearsal of my daughter’s middle school string orchestra. They were preparing for a festival at the time, and

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Inventing Fantasy Religions: Methods

Posted on January 26, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

Just as with world building in general, there are two ways to approach designing a fantasy religion. The first method is the ground-up method, which we’ll call the Organic or

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Through the Desert, Out of the Valley — Dealing with Writer’s Block

Posted on January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 by Stace Dumoski
digital manipulation of pen nib with multicolored background

The newest post on the Helping Writers Become Authors website is on a subject that is near and dear to my heart: writer’s block. In “6 Lessons Learned from 4

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The Cinematic POV

Posted on January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 by Stace Dumoski
magical tower in wood

A version of this post was originally published on August 8, 2019. In the “rulebooks” of writing, a lot of time and attention is given to the subject of Point

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The Taste of Fantasy

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Stace Dumoski

I recently attended the 2022 World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans. On the last day of the convention, after listening to a panel on Food in Fantasy, my friend and

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