Check out this wonderful article on orcs. Tolkien must have been having the time of his life coming up with those names–Shadrat, Ugluk, and Radbug… Zing!
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Tolkien was a master of words with sounds that connote meaning. But I often find that a lot of his work was not produced from thin air. Case in point: I was looking today at the word “ogre.” Check out this etymology from the OED. French ogre (late 12th cent. in Old French in sense ‘fierce
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I’ve just posted free PDF versions of “Loose in the Wires,” “Bright Waters,” and “The Scent of Desire” in the Shorts section. Enjoy!!
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From Edmund Schubert, editor of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalatic Medicine Show: “During the month of February we are going to make one story from each of our first four issues available at no charge. Two stories will be set free on February 1st, and two more on February 15th. Just visit www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com and explore the
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Not many people understand creativity. Dewitt Jones, a National Geographic photographer, does. And this video on the creative process, HOLY COW, it’s so good I had to buy it so I could watch it whenever the yearning took me. But this isn’t just for artists. The principles of creativity apply to any creative endeavor–from writing and drawing to building
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