HeyJaredFelicitea
Short magical fiction + tarot, tea, the moon, and motherhood. Currently Serializing: teen romcom novella + 90's/'naughties' nostalgia. WIP: YA Gothic Novel (think: Practical Magic meets Buffy).
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- Sep 17, 2026
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- Aug 19, 2026
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Writing is Ritual (opens the original)
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“It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out of faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.”—Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0qRA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amaz
Your Protagonist is a Fool (opens the original)
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“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that’s creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the first place—that’s what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one. The often surprising result of that hunt—that’s what I call Big Magic.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic<a class="image-l
The Hero and The Fool (opens the original)
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Have you ever been so excited about the premise of a book—maybe the synopsis promised your favorite tropes, an author you follow provided a favorable blurb, or it was the long awaited final installment to an epic fantasy saga you devoured—only to relegate it to your DNF pile before you could get a quarter of the way through?It’s a terrible disappointment. But life is short. We don’t have time to read books we don’t like.Libraries, bookstores, and insurmountable TBR stacks all inspire in me both
Pretty Words ≠ Good Story (opens the original)
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Starting over as a plotter. (opens the original)
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About seven years ago (that strange bubble of time when Covid-19 was running amuck, but we didn’t yet know it existed, until that bubble popped and the world shut down) I sat down at my laptop and said to myself, “write something, damnit!” At the time, my daughter was not even two years old, so I was still crawling out of a that dense first-child postpartum fog. I had been a high school English teacher until I became pregnant, at which time I left my job with no intention of ever returning to ed
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