My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges.
C for Corylus Avellana (2014)
Ogham and the characters it inspired stemmed from learning about the Tree of Wisdom and Knowledge, Hazel – Corylus avellana one of the ‘chieftain’ trees of the Irish Celtic tradition. From here sprouted a central character and a multi-faceted project.
All the research nuggets unearthed while I was creating the game-world for my novel ‘Wyrm Bait’, evolved into my post-apocalyptic saga Gossamer Flames. And the research is ongoing.
Links to my other A to Z posts can be found here: https://rolandclarke.com/blogging-from-a-to-z/blogging-from-a-to-z-challenge-2020/
Writing Wings 
Research is a wonderful thing isn’t it?
The rabbit holes it takes us down so often lead to new and wonderful places.
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From gems for writing about to mines of useless information – well, ones that collect dust. I explore all I can, EC.
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It’s no wonder that whenever characters in Celtic myths gain wisdom they get it from a fish that is in a pool shaded by hazel trees!
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The magic of hazel trees, Sue. Or else you can eat a salmon that’s eaten the nuts from the hazel – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_of_Knowledge. Do you know this one?
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Research beckons us all with the tempting finger of ‘just one more click’ 🙂 Hope the research continues to bear fruit.
Tasha 💖
Virginia’s Parlour – The Manor (Adult concepts – nothing explicit in posts)
Tasha’s Thinkings – Vampire Drabbles
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‘Just one more click’ – I nod and smile, Natasha – having just spent all day pursuing a rabbit in a warren of tunnels,
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