Emmacox

Emmacox, 6 months ago to random

My annual reminder that the Victorian’s had much better Christmas cards.

Emmacox, 1 year ago to random

I dreamt someone had made a historic version of google street view where you could go as far back as the Roman period and see what your street or city used to look like based on documentation and archaeological evidence.

I’ve woken up pretty bummed it doesn’t exist. 😕

#history #archaeology #maps

Emmacox, 1 month ago to folklore

Chûn Quoit, Cornwall

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.

#StandingStoneSunday #Folklore #History #Cornwall

Emmacox, 8 months ago to nature

Who needs a bit of the Cornish coast in their feed?

#Cornwall #Nature #ocean #sea #seascape #photography

Emmacox, 7 months ago to history

Merry Maidens stone circle. Cornwall is full of merry maidens turned to stone for dancing on the sabbath. The likely reason is in the etymology. Men Don means stone dance in Cornish.

#StandingStoneSunday #SilentSunday #History #Folklore

Emmacox, 4 months ago to history

Tregeseal Stone Circle, Cornwall

A much restored late Neolithic/early Bronze Age stone circle. A second stone circle stood beside it right up until the 1960s when a farmer tore it up to make way for an agricultural field. Remains of those stones can be seen in the hedgerow. A potential third stone circle is visible on old aerial maps, but this may likely be a hut circle, linked to whatever went on at this site.

#StandingStoneSunday #SilentSunday
#History #Cornwall

Emmacox, 3 months ago to writing

I’ve been so focused on my WIP that I almost forgot I need to write this month’s newsletter.

It would also be grand to gain a few more subscribers.

Join if you like:

• Me! (I try to be a good person 🙂)
• My #writing (mostly #fantasy)
• Writing tips and tricks
• #Art and #photography (my other #creative outlets)
• #Walking (our definition of a “short” walk will differ)
• #Cornwall (in all its beauty and weirdness).
• #History and #folklore

https://emcox.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Emmacox, 1 month ago to random

An author I enjoy and miss terribly. He had a better understanding of the world than most.

#GNUTerryPratchett #SpeakHisName

Emmacox, 1 month ago to random

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.

Emmacox, 6 months ago to random

A lovely sun halo over Merry Maidens stone circle.

#SilentSunday #StandingStoneSunday #Cornwall

Emmacox, 5 months ago to random

One Piper piping…
(yes, that’s me next to it for size. I am a measly 5’4”)

West Cornwall

#StandingStoneSunday

Emmacox, 5 months ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Have you entered any writing competitions? How did you do?

I’ve entered NaNoWriMo and Camp NaNo a few times with mixed results.

I did win a competition via the birdsite with Curtis Brown Creative. The aim was to write a story in a tweet based on a prompt where technology solved one problem but caused another. My entry is attached. I won a place on one of Curtis Brown Creative’s online writing courses, which helped me improve my writing immensely.

Emmacox, 1 year ago to writing

I talk a lot about my #writing but I also like to paint.

#art #artist #acrylic

Emmacox, 2 months ago to random

This is wrong on so many levels. Reviving a zombie law so the patriarchy can control women’s bodies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68774959

Emmacox, 1 month ago to history

Lanyon Quoit - a poorly restored Neolithic tomb

Folklore suggests it acted as King Arthur’s dining table before his final battle. He must have needed some bloody high barstools if that was the case. Because up until the early 19th century, you could ride through it on horseback without ducking. Its current inauthentic and shorter stature is due to its botched restoration by the Navy after a lightning strike.

#StandingStoneSunday #History #Folklore #Nature #Writing #Neolithic #Cornwall

Emmacox, 2 months ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub A poem describing you as a writer.

WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!
TEA!
WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE!

(My great-grandmother was the poet. My standard is akin to Baldric’s).

Emmacox, 16 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Do you have advice for other authors that you haven't heard from different sources?

To those considering writing, and those writers having one of those days where you’re wondering why you’re even bothering,

Do you want to be the type of human who is driven by consumption through destruction of our beautiful world?

Or do you want to be the person who created something new, to be shared with others, from the signature of your very existence?

Emmacox, 25 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Do you agree with Hillary Mantell, who said the best qualities for writing are self-confidence and arrogance?

No. I get the impression from traditional publishers that the best qualities for writing are:

• already be extremely famous
• find a good ghost writer.

Mantell’s words fit any profession. You need a thick skin and self belief in order to keep putting yourself out there until you make it.

Personally, I’d say the best qualities for writing are dedication and practice.

Emmacox, 26 days ago to writing

No writing today. But I did have a good think as to what some of my characters are getting up to off page.

The scenes might not be critical enough to make the book, but they’re still important and I need to know what’s going on.

#WritingCommunity #Writing

Emmacox, 11 days ago to random

#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.

Emmacox, 1 month ago to books

I enjoy it when someone recommends to me a book which heavily influenced them at certain impressionable points in their lives. I like the raw, vulnerable closeness you can feel towards the person through the words of the author.

#AmReading #Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity

Emmacox, 1 month ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub Change one word in the first sentence of a famous novel to change its meaning.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a penis-shaped rocketship.

Emmacox, 1 month ago to random

I’ve heard of #dogsatpollingstations but anyone else brought a dinosaur to theirs?

Emmacox, 29 days ago to random

I do like my character, Lavinia.

‘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!”).