After a luminous piece of poetry attributed to Rumi was used as a conclusion to the award-winning movie “The Shape of Water”, the 13th-century mystic poet has been enjoying a…Continue readingRUMInations 2– wisdom
by Katya Austin, Unslash It’s tough enough for a movie which is rooted in dreams to even get a nomination for an Oscar. When they are, they almost always lose…Continue readingThe year the dream won
I went to a 1 p.m. showing of Black Panther on a Monday, possibly an inconvenient time. But given all the discussions and the high media profile of the movie,…Continue readingOK. So. Black Panther
It started when Google told us… No, it started when the website decided to… Oh, we’ve had TROUBLE. Right here in River City. And the Trouble started with an H…Continue readingYou’ve been hacked!!!
Unh, no, not the wizard…maybe an android? In the years I have spent in the United States, I have gone through cycles of going to conventions in my genre. It…Continue readingOff to see the…
Jakub Pavlovsky https://www.almaalexander.org/read-anywhere A couple of years ago, the Odyssey Writing Workshop in New Hampshire invited me as a guest lecturer and asked some interesting questions. (Slightly abridged) What is…Continue readingBest writing advice? READ
In the beginning, the author created… When I first began writing historical fantasy, I was inspired by times and places rooted in our own familiar world – but leavened…Continue readingHow to build a world
The poet speaks of Love A little while ago I wrote an essay-review of the movie “The Shape of Water”, which incorporated the poem quoted at the story’s end, attributed…Continue readingRUMInations