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The Craftsman’s Workshop: Slow Productivity and Better Stories

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The Consolation of Fantasy

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A Sneak Peak into The Forge of the Covenant

November 30, 2018

The setting is this: LebĂ­a has just woken up to a changed world where nothing is as it seems. A Changer has…

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Christian fantasy

Two Ways of Writing “Christian Fantasy”

November 21, 2018

You might think we’re living in an age remarkable for its low level of culture and thought. People on all sides of…

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Russian mermaids

Monsters from Slavic Mythology: Mermaids, Water Spirits, Vilas

November 16, 2018

Have you ever heard writers say something strange like, “My characters have minds of their own”? They go on to complain that…

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finding Baba Yaga

Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen: a Review by Me.

November 12, 2018

Ok, so Russian fairy tales. My favorites, obviously. And not merely because I grew up with them or because I have to…

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patriotism

Is Patriotism the Same as Nationalism?

November 2, 2018

Recently, in a lamentable [unspecified amount] of time lost while scrolling my Facebook feed, I ran across a post from a person…

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Renaissance man

Renaissance Man: Seven Inventions of the Russian Leonardo da Vinci

October 18, 2018

When you think about the great inventors of history, a few names come up: Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Thomas Edison. Few…

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