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Friday, April 13, 2012

Happy Friday the 13th!

Why happy? Because superstitions are very useful for a writer. Think how many different superstitions are truly tropes in fiction--where would werewolves and other monthly lunacy be without the superstitions around the full moon, for example. And of course they differ from culture to culture.

Can you, dear reader, think of a way you used a superstition in your writing? Mine is that I wrote a short story about a ghost sheriff--and sold it to an anthology a couple of weeks ago--I love superstitions! Except for those that I believe in, knock wood.

And...

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH!

2 comments:

Carol Kilgore said...

Hope your Friday the 13th was uneventful!

Enid Wilson said...

I like witchcraft and ghosts too. I mean they are good to write, not that I want to really see them!

Steamy Darcy