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The Second Day of Kitsune — Shift Your Shape with a Kitsune Costume
Kitsune are clever shapeshifters who can appear as a human. Today, we’re going to change our own appearances toward a kitsune costume. Continue reading
The First Day of Kitsune – a folk tale
For the First Day of Kitsune, I’d like to share one of the oldest and most common folk stories about a kitsune. It’s a tale of a fox wife, similar to Western stories of fairy brides, and it features many of the key points in the kitsune legend. It’s also… Continue reading
Storylines and Plot Beats – Rise of the Guardians
Warning! Here there be spoilers, in great measure. Also, plot dissection and narrative breakdown. Continue reading
Twelve Days of Kitsune!
Christmas is one of my favorite holidays — but it wasn’t exactly popular during Heian and Kamakura eras in Japan, for obvious reasons. So here on the blog we’re going to celebrate Twelve Days of Kitsune, and each post we’ll discover a new folk tale, period foods, or other fun… Continue reading
Things To Do While Waiting To Hear Back From an Agent
At one point in Shard & Shield, a character is waiting for his treason to be discovered. He knows it is only a matter of time before he is identified, seized, tortured, and executed, but in the meantime he must go about his daily business as if nothing is wrong, as… Continue reading
Catch a Kitsune at Anime Crossroads!
You can find the two-hour panel “Japanese Folklore & Mythology: A Primer for Anime, Manga, & Film” at Anime Crossroads on Dec 8. Admission is included with con badge. We’ll talk about Japanese folklore, supernatural creatures such as tengu and dragons and kitsune, why it’s smart to fart at a… Continue reading
Pep Talk from Hell.
Someone on the NaNoWriMo chat group mentioned a technique in which a writer writes a pep talk from his or her characters. She said she had found it helpful. I hadn’t heard of the technique, but just the thought of it scared the snot out of me. Continue reading
Foxes. Don’t mess with them.
In my fox research for Kitsune-Tsuki and Kitsune-Mochi, I came across this clipping of a hunting trip gone wrong. I understand that people hunt, some for pleasure and some by necessity. (My husband grew up in an area where hunting provided much of some families’ diet.) But hunting should be… Continue reading
The Rise of Ebooks
I read that December’s shopping will determine whether 2012 is in fact the year ebooks edge out physical books, or if that will happen in 2013. Regardless, it’s coming soon. Continue reading
Signposts on the Way to “Making It” – Goals
It’s good to have realistic expectations as well as goals, right? And likely goals as well as shoot-for-the-moon goals, right? Authors — and everyone — should have many small goals as they make their way toward large goals. So in a fit of procrastination from Real Work, I’ve compiled a… Continue reading
