No, I haven't broken my good resolution to stop writing. I finished the story Flaming Arrow on January 8, 1982. This was quite a while before November 7, 1984 (my 70th birthday) when I swore off writing. The book in which this appeared ( Magic in Ithkar #2) had its first printing in December 1985 and was copyrighted by Andre Norton and Robert Adams in 1985. — Letter, 1987 “I’m impressed by your irrationality. It’s beyond anything I ever met with in my own time. I’m impresse

I’ve been reading "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies." In the coming days, I’ll make several posts about it and post my notes, but today, I want to look at how masterfully it complicates narrative technique. Doing so requires me to discuss diegetic protocols—where diegesis, simply put, refers to levels of narrative. Here are the terms as I will be using them: Diegetic: The primary narrative level where the story unfolds. Intradiegetic: Events and characters operating