"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Surprise post on my Patreon today: are you familiar with the short story "Susan and the Mermaid" by Pamela Colman Smith? It was printed in the December 1912 issue of The Delineator magazine. You can read it over there. ...
Today on my Patreon, we take a look at a passage from Book 2 in the Dresden Files series and address how lore could be passed upon the reader without being boring and incurring in inconsistencies. You can read it here. ...
If you dabble in writing, I'm sure you've dealt with the overinflated issue of how to start your piece. We call it 'incipit' when it's fiction. We call it 'hook' when it's...
Following Aphra Behn’s death in 1689, Delarivier Manley collected her inheritance and brought forward the discourse around the sexual identity of women and the legitimation of female same-sex attraction. She’s one of the “fair triumvirate of wit” with Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood, a term coined by...
«Five winters ago, the Sultan proclaimed the Pestilence was over. As it turns out, it takes more than an Imperial Decree for it to go away.» Ḳosṭanṭīnīye, 1572 The first snippet of my WIP Gothic novel gets published today on @Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/crshelidon/ TW: pandemic talk — Chiara C. Rizzarda...
As we have seen with Aphra Behn, the Restauration period started challenging some of the concepts around women’s desire in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships, with delicate examples of transgender and what we now know to call non-binary relationships taken into account. Anne Finch's late production...
Undervalued as an author till the 1970s, Aphra Behn is not only a feminist icon but her works around women’s sexuality are an exquisite example of sapphic poetry. 240 years after her death, Virginia Woolf will remember Aphra in her independence manifesto A Room of One’s Own: All...
Well, I said I was going to share some notes for Pride Month, didn't I? Here they are. I'd like to start with an amazing author and intellectual: Christine de Pizan, an Italian poet who worked in France at the beginning of the XV Century, is...
10. Chapter 10 We ended last week with a victory of the Minamoto: Taira no Shigehira was captured and he's paraded around the Capital - Aida style - alongside the severed head of his warriors. The idea of retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa is to offer him in...
Even if he's known for his Alices, Lewis Carroll privately produced and printed a huge amount of pamphlets, writings and pieces. Among the over two hundred pamphlets, twenty of them are the reinvention of original games, as he seemed to have a knack for finding...
