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You Need to Check out this Blog – How To Create Art And Make Cool Stuff In A Time Of Trouble

Hey writers Chuck Wendig put up a great blog post today on how to keep creating when the world is crazy and it’s getting to you. I highly recommend you have a read and keep the art love flowing: ‘Art is how you fight back. It’s how you take ALL THIS NOISE inside your heart andContinue reading “You Need to Check out this Blog – How To Create Art And Make Cool Stuff In A Time Of Trouble”

Guide to the classics: the Arthurian legend

Original article by Amy Brown , Doctoral Assistant in Medieval English, University of Geneva on The Conversation The early trailers for Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) were released last (northern) summer, which means my favourite season in life as a medievalist academic is coming: the season of The Truth About KingContinue reading “Guide to the classics: the Arthurian legend”

Expression, Why it is Necessary — The Evolutionary Mind

When we express something it is generally the key into our mind. However expression is not the only way for us and others to find ourselves. We have to express our thoughts, feelings, and state of mind at any point in time; it is what has to happen. The thing is, in society, people are… viaContinue reading “Expression, Why it is Necessary — The Evolutionary Mind”

Imitation game: how copies can solve our cultural heritage crises

Original article by Felicity Strong on The Conversation Visitors to the Otsuka Museum in Japan are offered the chance to see through time. Two life-sized copies of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper are hung on opposing walls, one showing it before the major 1999 restoration, and one as it is today. Visitors can pivot theirContinue reading “Imitation game: how copies can solve our cultural heritage crises”

Failed NaNoWriMo but still got a book out of it.

Those who know me know that I’ve never taken failure well even though I seem to be turning it into a spectacular kind of performance art piece in which I live my life. This isn’t a bad thing. Some of the greatest things have happened to me in the middle of a grand failure; I met my awesome partner failing at a job; IContinue reading “Failed NaNoWriMo but still got a book out of it.”

Stone Circles, Gothic Mansions and a Touch of the Fae

Hell0 Everyone I kind of owe you all a update on the Land of Amy, a proper one, not just lots of stuff about exorcisms. I’ve been super busy the last eight weeks getting together structural edits on the upcoming release called Wylt. It’s my about as close to a romance you guys will everContinue reading “Stone Circles, Gothic Mansions and a Touch of the Fae”

Witnessing Father Amorth: “The Vatican Exorcist” at Work and the Pathology Otherwise Known as Possession — Saint Michael’s Journal

by WILLIAM FRIEDKIN for Vanity Fair Sunday morning, May 1 of this year, was Father Amorth’s 91st birthday, but he had no plans to celebrate. He awoke just after dawn, said his usual morning prayers and one to Joseph of Cupertino, a 17th-century saint, and another to the late Father Candido Amantini, his mentor. Clutching […]Continue reading “Witnessing Father Amorth: “The Vatican Exorcist” at Work and the Pathology Otherwise Known as Possession — Saint Michael’s Journal”