The title of this post makes me think of The Rule of Names by Ursula K. Le Guin – it’s one of my favorite short stories. But this post is about ghosts, not names … nor dragons … I’ve had a few people ask how I came up with the ‘rules’ Emma has to follow…
I’ve been working hard on my second novel, and it’s been a real challenge. First, writing is work. Sure, sometimes you sit down and the story pours out of you…but sometimes it doesn’t. When I took Dean Wesley Smith’s Character Voice and Setting workshop last year, I learned that I can write no matter what….
I came up with the original idea for With Perfect Clarity while pondering how ghosts work. I was thinking about how ghosts often haunt the house they died in, then thought: what if that house was destroyed? Would the ghost be free to find another house? What if the ghost was bound to the original…