Magic Systems In Fantasy series on the SU<\/a>, just a hint that there\u2019s a change in focus for the rest of the year \u2013 but all will be revealed “over there”, laterz. Watch that space!<\/p>\nInfluences On Story<\/h3>\n
Otherwise, I\u2019ve been gambaruing on with writing The Chaos Gate<\/em> (The Wall Of Night #4) amid alternating floods, and high winds and seas. It all makes for an exciting \u2013 and occasionally scary \u2013 view out the writing window, I have to say, and engenders considerable reflection on the dynamism and power of nature when on the authorial coffee break.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/After-the-Storm-2-300x225.jpg\")
After the storm<\/p><\/div>\n
Will it creep into the work in progress? Well that, dear readers, is impossible to say at this juncture, chiefly because influences on story tend to heart Emily Dickinson and prefer to be told \u201cslant.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Did I say authorial coffee break?<\/p><\/div>\n
However, given the current tempestuous environment, I thought I\u2019d share an apposite quote from the WALL series to date. I enjoyed hunting it out, so I hope you enjoy reading it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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That WALL Series Quote<\/h3>\n
The whispering slipped away and Kalan turned back toward sleep\u2014but the dream transformed into a heaving mass of water. Overhead, lightning tore the heavens apart, while thunder, wind, and ocean battered at each other. Have I crossed into one of Yelusin\u2019s memories? he wondered, recalling the Sea mariners\u2019 accounts of deep ocean storms. The vision rolled, hurling him onto the back of a mountainous wave. For a moment he rode above the abyss, lightning spearing around him, before the crest collapsed. An avalanche of water crashed into his side and he veered wildly off true. Voices screamed as a snapped mast thudded down and he was running blind, every fiber stretched to breaking point as he strained to climb the next towering wave.<\/span><\/p>\nLightning exploded again and the black clouds boiled as a behemoth plunged through them, trailing streamers of fire. Kalan felt as though he might splinter apart at any moment but clung to the dream, striving to understand what the Gate\u2014or the fragment of Yelusin contained within his mind\u2014was showing him. \u201cToo soon.\u201d<\/em> The whisper burned in his mind like one of the streamers of fire. \u201cToo soon\u2026 But I burn. I cannot hold\u2014\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re tearing apart!\u201d<\/em> The man\u2019s shout was raw with urgency, although Kalan could see nothing but black rushing water and the lurid glow overhead. \u201cShe\u2019ll never hold unless\u2014\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nUnless what? Kalan wondered, as the clouds overhead snapped closed and the behemoth disappeared. <\/em>The tempest continued to batter at him, but the wind\u2019s fury was dying. The next time cloud and water swirled, the funnel around him was gray, not black. Finally, the storm dissipated altogether, transforming into clear dawn above a long gray firth.<\/span><\/p>\n~ from \u00a9\u00a0Daughter of Blood<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Three \u2013 Chapter 27, The Turnings Of Fate<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png\")
UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n
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And dinna forget to check in on the Supernatural Underground later today. In the spirit of Teresa Frohock\u2019s Los Nefilim<\/strong> series, I\u2019ll watch for you there. [Waves.] \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Watch-for-Me-300x298.png\")
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