In Part 1 (here it is for anyone who missed it), I discussed travelling in the real world, and the long, endless hours we can take. Great authors realize the lack of drama in hour-by-hour journeys, and find ways around telling the ‘boring parts’. Tension is built by the continuous threat of some antagonistic force,…
I was reading a post from A Pilgrim in Narnia titled The Land Where Oz Is North of Middle Earth and was led to ponder my own love of fictional maps. The first fictional map I remember is from The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander. I spent hours looking over the Great Avren River, tracing the path…
During the last week of my junior year of high school, an electrical fire broke out in the nearly-condemned art building and the art room burned down. The art room had been occupied by Mrs. Post, the fairy godmother of art teachers, for over twenty years. Over those years, Mrs. Post cultivated and helped grow…
The L. Palmer Chronicles 