From the Inkwell, From the Vein.....

I guess you really can't have a blog-theme covering the supernatural without addressing the quintessential supernatural creature--- the ghost.... There are so many kinds of ghosts, ranging from the innocently mischievous to the destructively violent. They haunt, they possess, they moan, and wail, and depress. They have unfinished business. They died tragically or wrongfully. You name it, and I'm sure someone's seen the ghost of it. The stories are on the lips of every man, woman and child--- the scary stories in the dark, the porch-side memories of battlefield phantoms, the terrifying initiations involving spirit summoning.... if we can't scare the crap out of ourselves, then we really aren't happy, are we?? So, basic definition--- the soul or spirit of a once living person or animal that can manifest itself, either visibly or in some other form, to those still alive.  I'm sure I don't have to go into much more detail, as 'ghosts' h...

......what did you find when you dug up the rest of the fossil ??? Stephen King likened the building of a story's plot with the digging of fossils. You see just the tip piercing through the ground... it could be the patella of a mastodon, the sternum of a coyote or the severed finger of a mob hit....but you'll never know unless you keep digging, right? I've had people ask, where do you get your ideas from? How do you know what you want to write about? Why did you write this story and not that story? Well, there's no easy answer.....and to show you how twisted, confused and random ideas can be, I'll share what led me to this past NaNoWriMo novel idea ..... "Tangle of Matter and Ghost"-- Title borrowed from the chorus of Leonard Cohen's, The Window . Thank you, Sarah Heustis, for finding that songbook in our "tent sale" books !! 1/ Watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow (I know, strange)...and a woman brought a Victoria...