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Things to Say Instead of “I Hope You’re Feeling Better” or “But You Look so Good!”
On Talking to Chronically Ill Friends
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Sophie Strand
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The Body is an Ecotone
Outtake from my upcoming book The Body is a Doorway: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human
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Sophie Strand
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April Compost Heap 2024
Songs, Books, Ideas, Stories Keeping Me Going
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Sophie Strand
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March 2024

Gardeners, Architects, and Ecologists
Plotting, "Pantsing", and Building Narratives
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Sophie Strand
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Romantasy & Fantasy Reading List
(Tristan & Isolde by John Waterhouse) As promised, a break down of recommendations in the romantasy genre. And if you want a brilliant defense of this…
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Sophie Strand
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Swarm is Song
(Photo from Orthinographies by Xavi Bou ) I’d wanted to post another in my fantasy and fiction writing series first thing this month, when I received a…
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February 2024

Why We Need Romantasy
Notes on a Genre
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Sophie Strand
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On Writing The Madonna Secret
Between a Rage and a Trance
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Sophie Strand
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January 2024

Ghost Pipe, Illness, and Mycoheterotrophy
outtake from upcoming book The Body is a Doorway
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Sophie Strand
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Falling in Love with a Story
Narrative Limerence and Obsession
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Sophie Strand
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Making Kin with Disability
Somehow, I managed to finish a book and submit it in the midst of physical meltdown. And now I’m puddle. Mostly bed bound. Bardo-brained. The other day…
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Sophie Strand
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Best of 2023 Compost Heap
smells, sights, sounds, words, visions, and ideas.
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