#WritersCoffeeClub Introduce yourself and/or update us on your writing journey since your last intro
I’m Emma. A Cornish writer who enjoys sea swimming so much I should be a mermaid. 🧜♀️
I’ve almost completed my 2nd draft of Guesthouse For The Lost And Found, a portal fantasy heavy on folklore and fairytales with a bit of murder mystery thrown in and wrapped up with humour.
If you like Discworld or Rivers of London, you might enjoy my writing.
#Writing and other creative tags are useful once you filter out those who are only using Mastodon for promotion and never engage with other people. I have no trouble muting words and people to make my feed interesting and inspiring.
‘Is that a Caravaggio?’ I asked. (I mean, it was a better conversation opener between captive and captor compared to such classics as “Where am I?” and, “Who are you?” or everyones top favourite, “You’ll never get away with this!”).
You just know the people who believe in the current crop of conspiracy theories are the descendants of those people who labelled a woman as a witch and blamed her for cursing their crop/livestock/causing bad weather etc.
The thing that saddens me, is that this is not an evolutionary disadvantage to be this far divorced from reality.
(My big hope is they all drink bleach some time sufficient quantity because , say, "the government doesn't want you to". So far I have been disappointed.)
The best preserved dolmen in west Cornwall. Dates from the early. Neolithic period.
Probably used as a repository for the bones of the dead and as a place where the living could honour and/or seek guidance from the dead. Considering it’s mushroom-like appearance, maybe there was some psychedelic trance work happening? 😄
The term quoit comes the folklore that these ancient monuments were made by giants playing quoits.
I need to work on my worldbuilding. I feel my fantasy settings are less like Rivendell and more like Ankh Morpork. But I need to put more meat on the bones.