Tag: fantasy

• Two Debut Novelists of Today whose Novels I’ve Recently Read

  

  Sue Lynn Tann wrote the debut fiction bestseller, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, and Heart of the Sun Warrior, the sequel, was just released this November 2022. I had read the first book and remembered about the sequel this month and that it would have been already released. I read this book most recently, a […]

  01/15/2023 8:03 pm

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• Author at Work

  

  I’ve decided to work on my novel each day for about the five day week, myself immersed in the events and characters consistently, toward completion but enjoying this all. It’s in the Fantasy genre, Young Adult. And I am free to skip days. I will be starting a new painting soon, so I can alternate […]

  01/03/2023 6:17 am

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• Poet Keith Waldrop, Postmodern poems, Fantasy and Modern Art

  

  (this photo is from last year around this time; ‘my poetry cat’ Peeko was very pleased with this book.) Like poet Christina Rossetti, I found poet Keith Waldrop’s latest poetry book, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy last year just discovered by me on the poetry shelf at the Foxboro Library; I was delighted to find out […]

  12/12/2022 3:07 pm

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• Writing My First Novel, A Glimpse of Thoughts on a Special Object Unnamed

  Home now. 🙂 Words written by hand tonight in my notebook for this novel, not typed up yet, just a free write that will be rephrased as part of an active scene to be written, which involve two main characters, and how they each feel or react to this same interesting object. I also wrote […]

  12/09/2022 8:43 pm

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• Writing Your Novel, A Strategy: You May Start with a Question or Two of Choice in Real Life

  Writing can be in your mind or imagination, but building your story, it can really help as you write to get real life information just by asking an informal interview to someone of your choice you may find works in a field you know not much about. It does not have to translate the profession […]

  12/09/2022 4:19 pm

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• My Novel’s Progress Today, A Place to Pause for Now

  

  Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 (blushing night skies receive my kisses) I consider what we may think others might expect from us and that we may be happier to surprise everyone naturally and pleasurably in writing or doing something, such as a novel, as you yourself find most interesting to write and read… …I’ve started writing […]

  11/23/2022 10:07 am

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• Where?

  I am seeing time moving forward in days, weeks, and months, rather than as a single day with few hours, so I just keep writing my novel as much as I would like to each week, and time continues replenishing on its own… That leaves me at 2928 words to rest the whole weekend, a […]

  11/19/2022 6:57 pm

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• A Very Cute Blue Cookie

  

  A poetic line came to mind just before I met the NaNoWriMo writers tonight…It brought me to the more center place in my story’s theme, as I was getting myself thrown into a corner before that in my draft. I told a little visual from my own draft to relate to the other writers’ stories. […]

  11/18/2022 8:47 pm

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• My First Novel in Progress, Finding the Genre and Audience: YA Fantasy, and On ‘Point of View’

  November 15, 2022, night I feel like I have more info now that my story completed could fit into the popular Fantasy genre for Young Adults. I wrote about 200 words tonight typed, and I am going to rest awhile at 2328 words total. 🙂 I read my typed draft, then I wrote at the […]

  11/16/2022 9:57 am

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• So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts

  

  Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing […]

  11/11/2022 4:44 pm

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• My First Novel Begins…Now

  

  up and up brand college ruled journal jumbo size found at target Here you can see my supplies, the notebook now written in some first pages (but not to see the words written, a surprise, of course). This paper calendar happening to match is for the story’s timeline, but I am not really near up […]

  11/10/2022 11:07 am

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• Words Arranged, Well, These…

  

  night and almost morningtime (continues) What if this book I am reading could be done and I can close it and move onto a new one? Is it fair I judge the book by the author’s name and opening sentence, if it’s a pen-name too? Only teasing a little, but the novel is just a […]

  11/10/2022 5:48 am

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• The Pearls: a fantasy fiction Novel, and a Cat with a Very Fluffy Belly, not to Touch

  

  My cat Peeko has been so interested in expanding his skillset since he started schooling with me, and was a little disappointed in himself just a moment ago when he was interested in green grapes, and wanted to eat one, but also instinct didn’t; he licked his mouth as he glanced away. I told him […]

  11/06/2022 7:58 pm

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• …:)

  

  Friday, October 28, 2022 “Although I am sad,” Thich Nhat Hanh had written, “this dandelion keeps my smile for me.” 🌼 The same works with a Care Cat, Your Very Own, 💕💕—Peeko. 😉 .:.: I realize I somehow wrote over my post about reading, so I’ll recreate it here: I am reading Daughter of the […]

  10/29/2022 5:27 pm

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• Miss May Ziadeh ii, My First Time with Charcoal

  

  Miss May Ziadeh ii, charcoal on paper, by Jade Nicole Beals, Sept. 25, 2022. I found a set of pencils I liked at the store. I’d used charcoal sticks many years ago in a school art class, but never after that, had I drawn with charcoal pencils. After trying these, I completed my set with […]

  09/25/2022 12:06 pm

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• An Unexpected Lounge

  

  reading The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis yesterday evening Today I am writing a short story, my first short story in awhile, an imagined one, and by in awhile, I mean the first one that I set out to write a short story intentionally. I will surround writing with yoga, sitting meditation, and self-massage. I […]

  09/23/2022 12:29 pm

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• An Art Gallery Weekend, A Reflection on Beauty, Luminosity, and Happiness in Art

  

  featured artists, Rich and Shana, this weekend, and me centered Saturday I spent the afternoon at the local Art Gallery and Studio and it’s been a busy, connected time with the artist friends there, and those words don’t always come together in other ways, which I love about this. I had just finished my recent […]

  09/12/2022 12:07 pm

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• Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window

  

  (in my private collection) “Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window” by Jade Nicole Beals Sept. 8, 2022. 11 L x 14 W sides painted, signed and dated on back by me. * My 8th recent painting. I have been working on this one for awhile, since around June maybe, and it began […]

  09/09/2022 10:46 pm

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• A Paintbrush and a Novel

  I will begin writing my first novel and painting for my next art show I’d like to have, so the blog pace will slow (of course it needs to ;), but the site will be open, about painting and my novel in progress, and more.—But I am currently writing a short story, and I may […]

  09/01/2022 12:06 pm

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• “Hold Me Closer” Britney Spears and Elton John’s New Song, Thrilled About Books in the Night, and My Mom Comes to Visit!

  Aug. 31, 2022 First, I am very pleased with the air at my apartment home as last week I professionally deep cleansed the fireplace we don’t use (and is off)…a real professional will come in time (inclusive), but it is wonderful what a difference it makes. It feels like a whole new landscape or planet […]

  08/31/2022 11:00 am

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• New Fantasy Novel Found at the Bookshop, A New Poem Sent In, The Fun of a Giveaway I Had Not Won

  

  This is the new book I found Uprooted by Naomi Novik at the bookshop last time, by an author of our time, fantasy genre. I picked it based on the cover first and then the line on the cover: ‘enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic.’ I am currently reading the book (Aug. […]

  08/17/2022 2:28 pm

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• “The Castle Tower”

  

  April 25, 2022 The Castle Tower a pantoum by Jade Nicole Beals You’ve said I am entwined with the numberless. The castle tower trades its lace for the sky. All night, the tower climbs in secret, spinning its uppermost lace into the finest clouds. Please place your hands upon mine. The castle tower trades its […]

  04/25/2022 7:36 pm

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• More Poems and Even More Poems, Bringing Out the Purple Wizards…with Jason Preu

  

  📰Fresh off my Goodreads Press, the poetry book whose title and cover had been hidden by the first book on my coffee table, for suspense, included with that first one generously as complimentary bonus book by author—revealed now that it’s read, my introductory thoughts about the book: More Poems about Purple Wizards and Neon-Bright Exceptionalisms […]

  04/04/2022 1:10 pm

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• Neverwhere, A Reflective Review (Which Keeps Surprises Hidden For Those Finding The Book Anew)

  

  This is the second book I’ve read by the author, after finding Stardust many years ago and reading that one more than once. I recommend Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman to readers who enjoy fantasy and magical realist novels with plenty of humor, dabs of philosophy, and absurdity; this one would be best for adult or […]

  10/02/2021 1:00 pm

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