by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor | Apr 26, 2020 | CRAFT
I met an Old Coyote last summer. He was taller than I had expected, broader in the chest, and gentler. None of the usual tricks at first glance. Perhaps he was feeling the need to be polite in new company. But like all Coyotes, at least the ones I’ve come across...
by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor | Apr 22, 2020 | CRAFT
I’ve been reading Charles de Lint books since a friend introduced me to Moonheart in the mid-90s. A contemporary fantasy author, deLint blends the present with the past, moves archtypical characters into complex spaces, and just plain writes a terrific yarn....
by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor | Apr 18, 2020 | CRAFT
A few years ago, I visited the UBC Museum of Anthropology with a friend. Although excited by the prospect of gathering more details for my novel-in-progress, I was also apprehensive. We were going to a place designed to observe Others in neat packages called...
by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor | Apr 14, 2020 | CRAFT
You must always be intoxicated. It is the key to all: the one question. In order not to feel the horrible burden of Time breaking your breaking your back, and bending you to the earth, you must become drunk, without truce. But on What? On wine, poetry, or virtue, as...
by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor | Apr 10, 2020 | CRAFT
Besides the sweet plot and wonderful visuals, I realized that this video shows us what we do as authors. Our readers rely on us to be their senses – sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. Without us and their narrator, readers cannot experience our stories and...
by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor | Mar 2, 2020 | CRAFT
One of the things I tell writers who are just starting out is that to be a Writer™, you only need three tools: Something to write with.Something to write on.And a Slinky. A writer, much like any fine artist, can grab just about anything to Write With – pencil, pen,...
