Terri Windling's Blog, page 265

Today I'm posting Devon photographs by friends (with their kind permission). The first four pictures are by Helen Mason, showing Dartmoor in its beautiful winter guise. The standing stones, below, are part of the Scorhill stone circle, near the hamlet...

Author/editor/teacher Delia Sherman has a post up on her blog, The Grand Tour, full of excellent advice for writers who despair of ever finishing their novels or other projects. "Whatever you do," Delia says, "get that shitty first draft done....

Today's first tune is "Elephant Gun" by Beirut, a band whose whimsical, wonderful video above (directed by Amal Har'el) proves that music videos are not entirely moribund as an art form -- at least not when you're having this much...

We've had a magical autumn over the last couple of months, full of deep blue skies and crisp, clear nights and trees blazing with an intensity of color rarely seen on Dartmoor. Despite the amount of time I spend outdoors...

Two blog recommendations today: Stephanie Levy's Artists Who Blog features interviews with artists discussing their work and the process of blogging. Most of the artists here are women, and most come from the illustration and design fields -- such as...

Enjoy that turkey and pumpkin pie for me, the latter of which is virtually unknown here in England. (As is Shoofly Pie, which I grew up with in a family that is Pennsylvania Dutch on my maternal grandmother's side.) And...

My colleage Hal Duncan, a young Scottish writer of the mythic novels and a contributor to The Journal of Mythic Arts, has a video up on Tor.com right now that I highly recommend. Brit Mandelo explains: "The It Gets Better...

I'm still thinking about the use of shadows in the Miwa Matreyek video I posed here last week, which reminded me of the charming shadow art created by Allison Read Smith (above). "These pieces run across the floor and up...

I'm still thinking about the use of shadows in the Miwa Matreyek video I posed here last week, which reminded me of the charming shadow art created by Allison Read Smith (above). "These pieces run across the floor and up...

Things to read, and look at, and listen to: Reading 1.) In print: Please don't miss Leslie Marmon Silko's powerful new memoir, The Turquoise Ledge. It's an unusual book: richly mythic and symbolic, engrossing, surprising, harrowing, and deeply moving. Lordy,...