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3 easy ways to use transport in your fiction

September 7, 2016 by Icy Sedgwick 7 Comments

Transport can provide writers with ways to show character, build worlds, or move the plot along! Click here to find out how!

Transport may seem like a necessary evil to get you from A to B. But have you ever used it as a plot point? A character quirk? Or a means of world building? You can use one, or all three, to round out your fiction in a more unexpected way! This post was inspired by […]

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#FridayFlash – Homemade Gods

May 22, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 17 Comments

This story is now out for submission! This flash was inspired by a comment from Nerine Dorman about a misspelling, turning homemade goods into DIY deities!

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#FridayFlash – The Moor

February 27, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 17 Comments

There wasn’t always a moor to the north of Little Howling. Local tales told of an ancient forest, stretching for miles across the land now occupied by the moor, and Great Howling. Angela loved the stories of witches in the woods, and thickets so dense that villagers became lost in them, their cries for help […]

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What am I working on?

May 15, 2014 by Icy Sedgwick 1 Comment

I was tagged by my friend and fellow writer Tony Noland (@TonyNoland) in a bloghop meme, along with Larry Kollar and John Wiswell, to answer a few questions! So without any further ado, here we go… 1. What am I working on? I’m being a bit silly and working on two projects at once – […]

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Flowers on the Sill (Free Short Story)

May 24, 2013 by Icy Sedgwick 17 Comments

Do you keep house plants and enjoy horror stories? Flowers on the Sill is a perfect free lunchbreak read for you!

Natasha had kept flowers on the windowsill in the front room for as long as I’d known her. She’d move the flowers around the house to suit her mood, but it was always the ones on the front room sill that gave the clues – yellow carnation for disappointment, or begonias for dark thoughts. She […]

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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!

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