Tag: 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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Gateway to Whimsy
In my prior posts, I explained how my writing journey began — and how it started, somewhat unwillingly, with skunks. So, around that same time, I was looking for something to take my mind off things. Yes, including the pesky skunks. Neuroplasticity teaches new ways of reacting to old triggers, after all. Sure, normal people…
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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…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 