Tag: creative-writing
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Where Gnomes and Alpacas Meet
When I wrote The Gnome with the Golden Hat, I had absolutely no intention of turning gnomes into a series. After all, I was out of blank gnomes to paint, and that felt like a perfectly reasonable stopping point. But here’s the thing about stories: they’re like glitter. Once you spill a little, it’s everywhere.…
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The Scent of a New Chapter
“There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.” Robert Jordan In my introduction post I explained how I was born with the spark to write. So, why did it almost take 60 years to get to author stage? “A Beginning” happened to me early 2025 when…
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Introduction
People always want to know how long it took to realize you wanted to do something you love — in my case, writing. I was born with the spark; it just spent a few decades dodging traffic. Writing was never something I discovered; it’s something that kept trying to find me. Between bills, jobs, and…
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Welcome to the Word Herd Imagine trying to herd cats… now give each cat a pen name. That’s A Heep of Words — my creative universe where three distinct voices chase inspiration, not laser dots. Alexandra Heep decodes the mysteries of health and the human body, where science meets intuition. Helena Parx travels through gnome…
