Posts by Julia Schmeelk
Mating Bond
As the planet chooses partners based on complementary strengths and talents, compatibility, and other factors, it is hard to imagine anyone rejecting the bond. Especially because if the bonding of the power lines had progressed enough, one or both partners will die as they attempt to separate. Does that mean that nobody ever does it?…
Read MoreTech Products
Everyone knows the latest tech products, from phones to blue tooth gadgets, but sometimes it is the little things that can positively blow you away. Lately I have been experimenting with press on nails, not the crazy long ones, but more reasonable length and of course you can file, trim and shape them as you…
Read MoreHeavy Lifting
I am in the midst of a huge moving project. My parents have passed onto the next adventure and left us a house packed with treasures, trash, and lots of history. Our task has been to sort, toss, distribute, donate, and preserve what needs it, consolidate and move out of our house so we can…
Read MoreThe Writer’s Brain
Most of the writers I know, once in the zone will work for hours on a project. They will isolate, set aside family, friends, work, and everything else and focus on a project. Now achieving that focus is never simple. It requires flipping a switch, and turning it off is no easy task either. Writers…
Read MoreFreedom
When you build your own world, you get to define all these very important words for your own fictional reality, but in the real world, the one where my feet live, we all have our own idea of freedom. For many it is freedom from something. Freedom from ignorance, freedom from starvation, freedom from persecution,…
Read MoreHappy Endings
Yes, I choose to write fairytales. They may be aimed at adults, but they are more than fantasy, they are optimistic bombs, set to warm your heart. A bit like a psychic, fantasy-based Hallmark special. Someone even compared my books to Little House on the Prarie with the dragons thrown in for color. I took…
Read MoreSun Visor Failure
No idea how this could relate to my fictional world, but somehow it hit my funny bone just right. Last night on my evening commute, with the sun going down shining in my eyes, I tried to adjust the visor and it fell off in my hand. Yes the whole visor fell down, and it…
Read MoreCharacter Flaws
So they say when you design a character, before you set him or her free in a setting, you need to include a flaw. Well, to be honest I always chuckle over this, because what counts as a flaw? Too ambitious? Greedy for attention? Seeking out anonymity? Too quiet? Loud and obnoxious? Faithful? Independent thinker?…
Read MoreDifferent Places
As an American, I have have lived in six different states, visited 40 others, and missed a few as we flew past or didn’t get a chance to stop. I have not yet ventured off North America, but I know many people who started somewhere else and came here for work, play, seeking something different,…
Read MoreThe Right Hat
As humans, we all have an instinctive knowledge about how the right hat can change our lives. For a moment, think about the men you know and how they favor a particular hat. I know men who wear a special beany, or cap, fur hat, or cowboy hat. Women can be the same if they…
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