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Psychic Bookstore (Story Idea)

Thea van Diepen

While on Tumblr yesterday, I got a story idea from this: VELLICHOR n. the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were

WWBTE: Damis/Inalik

Thea van Diepen

I’m working on a crazy complex story whose working title is “The Women Who Brought the End” (thus, WWBTE). It has lots of characters. And I mean LOTS of characters. Here is one of them: This character most often goes by Damis, although her birth name is Inalik. The pattern on her back and arm are a spell that keeps her in that form, rather than the beast form behind her, which is what she would naturally look like. She

The Story Equivalent of Dropping Mentos into a Bottle of Coke.

Thea van Diepen

Right now, as well as (still) looking for a summer job, I’m taking a writing course. I signed up for it basically as soon as finals were over, which earned me an incredulous look from my mother, but I don’t mind. Why? Aside from the fact that I absolutely love learning things at all times and will actually go and research topics that interest me if I’ve gone too long without learning something new, I knew I needed something to

Drama, Drama Everywhere! Part the Final

Thea van Diepen

Remember when I talked about everything going wrong before Ex-Villain left? It was like the stars were out of alignment or something. You know how, in quite a few fantasy stories, Macbeth included, when the wrong king is on the throne, nature seems to unravel? Well. Allow me to remind you of the enormity of the situation: “Mystery Character started doing nastiness never intended in Author’s conception of the story. Villain’s father came disturbingly close to being raised from the

A Brief Interlude to the Drama

Thea van Diepen

Main Secondary Character (MSC) would have wanted me to make up for the merciless teasing I subjected him to in the last blog post. The only problem is that he’s too busy eating a quesadilla to even notice that I’m writing this (if ever one day he becomes lactose intolerant, I’m sure he’ll drop down dead within the week). This means, of course, that I will have to shoulder the responsibility and explain why he is the way he is,