Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

One of the advantages of keeping your metaphysics off stage is that it allows your characters to debate metaphysics without some of them looking like fools. But one of the disadvantages of that is that they need some metaphysics to argue. Which ought to harmonize with the religion as practiced.

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with a twist:
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Plunging into the thick of the outline.  And discovering inspiration dancing around as it usually does.

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The rain is perhaps freezing, but definitely forming droplets on the trees that catch the streetlight and glow like diamonds.

A car has two tracks behind it leading out into the snow. The logical thing is that the driver was starting to leave when he heard something was canceled (and drove back very precisely) but it LOOKS like an Adams Family thing where a car materializes just a bit off its parking place.

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Recently read some books with some world-building I hope does not continue.

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Was pondering whether my heroine had gone to Queen Hesione's school when she was a child -- already set up in the last novella --

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The Secret Chapter by Genevieve Cogman

The Invisible Library book 6. Spoilers ahead for the earlier books.

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Undeading Bells by Drew Hayes

Fred, the Vampire Accountant book 6. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.

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So, what do you name a Cinderella?

Assuming it's pulled out a fairy-tale world even to more a high fantasy one, Cinderella's a bit off.

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