Category Archives: Story time

I read the final chapters and bring the story to its conclusion. I then reflect on what I was trying to explore through the creation of this narrative when I wrote it, and what I would perhaps change today, and invite creative collaborators to get in touch if they think there’s merit in working togetherContinue reading “After the Collapses 8”

Jules begins her right of passage on her own, but when she joins the community of women, Rowan is witness to it all and hears a magical story.

As the two main characters spend time together, after their meeting at the river, their conversation explores their opposing worldviews of technotopia vs a nature spirit based culture. They arrive into the gathering of women as Jules prepares for her young women’s rite of passage. I look back at this story from my present vantageContinue reading “After the Collapses”

We go back to the intuitive instincts of our young protagonist Jules as she senses something of Rowan’s journey towards her. I discuss my intention in the development of her character as representing real, rather than Harry Potter, magic in the world for young readers.

This episode explores how resources in the novel’s world are exchanged, and follows Rowan’s journey through new communities of the Isles.

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy I want to show you that the world I am imagining in the story in terms of solutions is already here. Like Jule’s mother, there are many folk and medical practitioners in IrelandContinue reading “After the collapses 2”

Musings and reading from an unpublished story I wrote in 2010 aimed at children on the cusp of adolescence. It is set a few generations after we make it through multiple systemic global collapses. Two young teens live in a changed Ireland which is now a land of many isles with pockets of regenerated wildContinue reading “After the collapses”