writing
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Superstitions in Paradiso Marjani “Jani” Reis is a ship’s captain, and that role almost always comes with a lot of superstitions. Before she starts on another voyage, she has to tap three times on the stained glass picture of St. Clement’s anchor that hangs on the bridge, and the night before leaving a port, she…
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Humor in Paradiso As much as I’d like to channel Terry Pratchett into Paradiso, I have a feeling that it would just come across as forced. I’m not clever enough to be a satire writer, no matter how much I’d love to, so I’m leaning into my strengths. Plus, this story isn’t really a light…
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Character Quirks One of the quirkiest characters in Paradiso happens to be the first character (as of right now) that the readers meet: Brick LaMasse. He’s a night shift janitor at a local hospital, and he fully enjoys being what he calls a “day snoozer.” Although he keeps to himself, usually because of the time…
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Do your characters believe in luck or fate? Okay, so the cast of characters that I am working with is pretty extensive, so I think that what I’m going to do is focus on a single character for each question that resembles this one. That way, it won’t get too repetitive and you’ll kind of…
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For the month of April, I’m taking a challenge I saw over on … Bluesky I think? Although it probably started out over on Instagram …
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I cannot remember the exact moment that I realized Christianity was not for me, and honestly, I don’t think there was one. It was just a myriad of occurrences, a thousand tiny cuts, one slap too many, that drove me away, but not in a bombastic way. Oh no, my friends, that faith went out…
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don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
a little more juju 