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Angel tattoo designs are gaining popularity

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Angel tattoos are probably the most common designs for women worldwide. Angel tattoos can be versatile and may be used to create unique designs in a lot of different ways. Angels are thought to be one of the most beautiful heavenly creatures and represent different ideas to different individuals. Professional tattoo studios typically have a number of angel tattoos to pick from and each might possibly be altered into whatever design you'd like. Angels have represented beauty, purity, and spirituality in several different cultures throughout history. The character of a angel has often been employed to symbolize someone's transformation to a higher plane of existence, either physically, mentally, or spiritually. Most angel tattoos have a great amount of detail so the attractive nature associated with the design and style and the intricate aspects of a design can match the loveliness associated with the angels which have been depicted in literature and art. Angel tattoos are easily...

Economous Musgrove Chapter 9 Part 3

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Wow, almost did not make it :O I blame my preoccupation with a picture book I am working on that is due in little over one weeks time - I Don't Want to Eat My Dinner  it is called, a sample for you below. On posting this, I am painfully aware of missing details, of things not quite fleshed out, but such is the state of first drafts, so read on knowing that if this gets to a more polished stage it will be fuller, fitter, finer. Economous musgrove         © D.M.Cornish PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH OR REPRODUCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION Chapter 9 PART 3 The Sulk & Through                                                 *          *          *          *          * The tent...

Economous Musgrove Chapter 9 Part 2

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Late again, but still arrived, more Economous is here. May I just say too, how much I appreciate you all, whether you comment or not, and how much your comments encourage me to continue and aid in the creative process - it is like you are all some kind of beta (alpha?) testers helping guide the outcome of the final result. Anyway, lame  similes  aside, thank you all. Economous musgrove         © D.M.Cornish PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH OR REPRODUCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION Chapter 9 PART 2 The Sulk & Through The next morning, with the sun already beating with summer heat upon all uncovered pates, Economous found the lenterman sitting easy with the side-armsman and the backstepper, all sipping the best local under the shade of coachyard’s broad eaves. “No passage today, m’hearty,” the lenterman said with a lazy tip of his already lazily tilted stovepipe hat. The second day proved even hotter and the lentermen all the more comfortably disposed under the coachyard e...

Economous Musgrove Chapter 9 Part 1

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So we begin again, Finnigan ("... he has  whiskers  on his chin again...") It may well be noted that this chapter has the same title as the previous, and this is because I have actually renamed them in between postings; for this  chapter bears the title much better than the previous (which is now called, "Humour" - tho this is not a title I am yet fully settled upon). Things are likely to get lumpier still from now on for we are most definitely in "writing as I go" territory: let the terror begin! As for Tales from the Half-Continent , it is 216 pages long, has 1 map (recycled from Factotum - please forgive me),   8 character illos but alas, no  appendices  - it seems I am become too obscure to be allowed such indulgences a second time. Let us revel in the obscurity together \o/ I see too that I got the athy's names mixed up (THANK YOU, ANON, VERY HELPFUL INDEED) : it is known by all three  names in my various notebooks - I think because I canno...

Economous Musgrove Chapter 8 Part 3

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Wow, pushing the limits here; that is what fear will do for you.  Well, still some already material left though it has gaps in it: gaps where I do not know details of that moment but know what comes after. I will do that at times. This is a first draft so you are going to get all the lumps and bumps that come with that I am afraid. That said, I am actually pleased with how complete the text has been up to now (full of errors certainly, but no gaps of writing). Any way, apologies for the extended delay, now on with the show. Economous musgrove         © D.M.Cornish PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH OR REPRODUCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION Chapter 8 PART 3 The Sulk & Through By a  ceaseless  rotation of limbre and gastrine, the Douse Fish was kept at a cracking pace for so small a vessel, passing upon the ladeboard other craft guided by less impatient souls. With the westering sun low in the wan blue dome of almost cloudless heaven, the cromster made the great riverg...

Economous Musgrove Chapter 8 Part 2

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So, the inner wobbliness continues, by which I mean my uncertainty about many things, most especially: do I make the journey a "thing" (perhaps too  repetitive  of MBT)? Or, do I expedite the journey for a change, give a sense of the passing vista, making note of important highlights, but cutting to the chase plotwise? The urge is strong (as ever) to show the Half-Continent for its own sake, but I fear that my urge here is less geographic completeness and more a fear of getting into the meat and potatoes of why I even began this story in the first. You can see with this week's offering that the former has been my current approach... Plotting ahead is one thing, but I have found there are just some points in a story where I will not know what happens in it or lies ahead until I have actually written that scene and been through it with my characters and seen how they all react together thus revealing the next step/s. Economous musgrove         © D.M.Corn...