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For Laughs, for Luck, for the Unknown (opens the original)
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If this email is cut off, just click “view entire message” to read the whole thing in your browser.This is Magic & Ink, where I write about fantasy writing and creative living. In this month’s Inky Archive you can:learn why it’s important to choose your narrator check out the new writing sprint scheduledownload a free gift!“Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.” — Peter
How to Write Better (opens the original)
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The Art of Fantasy Place Names (opens the original)
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The Horns Came Riding In (opens the original)
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This is Magic & Ink, where I write about fantasy writing and creative living. “And in the whiteness, of the whiteness, flowering in the tattered water, their bodies arching with the streaked marble hollows of the waves, their manes and tails and the fragile beards of the males burning in the sunlight, their eyes as dark and jeweled as the deep sea — and the shining of the horns, the seashell shining of the horns! The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.”— Peter S. Beagle,
Dusky Shades of a California Summer (opens the original)
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This is Magic & Ink, where I write about fantasy writing and creative living. Just a quick update this month! HomeI drift through green and goldDusky shades of a California summerUntil a ray of lightCast by the setting sun strikes my eyeThrough shadow sculpted hills. — Stace Dumoski, 2006<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GIm7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2F
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