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Advent Calendar of Winter Mythos Day 5: Krampus, Christmas Devil, or Santa Clause's...
Germanic, Alpine Folklore Dec 5th; 6-7th Century orally; 16th Century written Yes, as in that scary movie critter. Not everything during...
Valerie Willis
Dec 5, 20232 min read
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Advent Calendar of Winter Mythos Day 4: Pooka of Kildare, Phooka, Púca puca
Pre-Celtic, Irish folklore, British, Welsh, Norse, Germanic As early as the 8th Century We’ve discussed gods, ancient entities, and...
Valerie Willis
Dec 5, 20233 min read
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Advent Calendar of Winter Mythos Day 3: Ullr, Ullin, or Ull
Norse mythology, Scandinavian, Germanic 200 CE to 3rd Century Meet the Winter God of Norse Mythology. As you are aware thanks to...
Valerie Willis
Dec 3, 20232 min read
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Advent Calendar of Winter Mythos Day 2: Yuki-Onna
Japanese folklore, Urban Legend Predates the Muromachi Period (1336-1573 Kyoto) There are many tales of these mysterious pale women. Some...
Valerie Willis
Dec 2, 20233 min read
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VTMAS No. 83: Mickey Says Good Night
There are times where in the dead of night you aren't prepared to experience or hear certain voices. Mickey Mouse is definitely one of...
Valerie Willis
Dec 2, 20231 min read
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VTMAS No. 82: A Surprise for the Barber
Again, Link always seems to catch me by surprise. He insisted he needed a haircut. Mind you, this kid LOVES going. To watch my little guy...
Valerie Willis
Dec 2, 20231 min read
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Advent Calendar of Winter Mythos Day 1: Cailleach Bheur
Pre-Celtic, Gaelic, Scottish Highland folklore, British, Arthurian, THOUSANDS of years old – no can find where she started! We’ll start...
Valerie Willis
Dec 2, 20234 min read
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FICTION: Mikey from Middle School
Short Story - Contemporary Romance Comedy Natasha scoffed seeing the café's order line reaching the door. Christmas was just three days...
Valerie Willis
Dec 1, 20234 min read
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VTMAS 81: I'm Disappointed
On this particular morning, my husband who has been seeing him off, was feeling ill and so I picked up the mantle to wake Link up and get hi
Valerie Willis
Dec 1, 20232 min read
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The Holiday Season is Here (Flash Fiction)
I came to a mind-numbing stop. Before me, aisles and aisles of reds, whites, blue, silver, gold, and the ever-present green. Christmas...
Valerie Willis
Nov 7, 20181 min read
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VTMAS No. 80: I’m THAT Friend
[Sorry, it’s been a while, here we go~!] I’ve come to realize that I’m THAT friend. Yes, the one you can’t take out in public without...
Valerie Willis
Sep 3, 20185 min read
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Top 5 Things to do with Damaged Book Copies #AuthorAdvice
Slightly damaged books happens sometimes. I love CreateSpace because the few times this has happened, they’ve overnight a replacement!...
Valerie Willis
Jun 22, 20182 min read
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St. Patty’s Worthy Tale I Inspired Another to Write <3
On Saturdays, Mama set me down in front of the churn. In summer days, she set me on the porch to look out upon the woods, she said, to...
Valerie Willis
Mar 17, 20181 min read
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white buffalo calf woman
Within A Forest Dark In the Lakota legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, a beautiful apparition wearing a white buckskin dress...
Valerie Willis
Mar 15, 20181 min read
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5 Ways to Grab Free Reads & Books!
Whether you are a lover of books, book-addict, voracious reader, and just a lover of stories, we can spend a lot of money fast satisfying...
Valerie Willis
Mar 4, 20184 min read
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#WritingTip The Romance Genre Label
Romance. There’s this whole genre in movies, books, and TV series. Even then, in other genres it sort of creeps in there somehow. It...
Valerie Willis
Feb 1, 20183 min read
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Book Review: Unveiled by Lynda Haviland
Amazon Link:Â https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LI0RYGI/ GoodReads:Â https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32179348-unveiled 5 Stars Eva...
Valerie Willis
Jan 26, 20182 min read
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VTMAS No.78: My First Snow
Oh, it was an interesting trip that year and I barely remember any of it. I suppose you would assume I was very young, but that wasn’t...
Valerie Willis
Jan 6, 20184 min read
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Revisions & Editing Workshop
If you missed my workshop with OCLS at the Downtown location, here is a chance to grab a copy of the PDF and/or PowerPoint Show. It was a...
Valerie Willis
Dec 9, 20172 min read
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NaNoWriMo 101 – 2017 Edition PowerPoint
Yesterday, on behalf of Orlando Nanowrimo at the South Trail location for OCLS I had the honor to introduce and inform writers what this...
Valerie Willis
Oct 19, 20172 min read
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