Captain Codfish

My Mythos: Azinia, Landrina, and more…

Posted on July 16, 2012 by robinaburrows

As a reader, what kinds of story worlds do you prefer? If you are a writer, how do your story worlds develop? Like most writers, I have many different story worlds, but a lot of them are interconnected. I thought it was time to share a little about my main story worlds. The first major … Continue reading »

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Blog: Musings on How Writing Is Easy…Or Is It?

Posted on May 7, 2012 by robinaburrows

Happy Children’s Book Week! Recently I met someone who told me writing was easy (in particular writing children’s picture books). He is not a writer and as far as I know has never written anything creative.  He said that he could write a computer program to write picture books. He would have three words on … Continue reading »

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Short Story: Kristen’s Araby (A Captain Codfish Story)

Posted on February 13, 2012 by robinaburrows

Most writers have many settings. Currently I am writing in my Kaylee / Azinia setting, and I have a space opera setting bubbling around in my head. Before that there was my Landrina setting, which was dominated by an eternal war between magic and science. In the same overarching setting was my Nokar (lost soulmates) and … Continue reading »

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Blog: DragonCon, Terry Brooks, Selina Rosen, and Writing Advice

Posted on September 12, 2011 by robinaburrows

As I’m sure you can tell from this blog title, I’m back from DragonCon. It was not quite what I had expected. I went to an anime convention in Dallas while I was in college. I was expecting it to be more like that experience. I knew DragonCon was a much larger convention, but I … Continue reading »

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Blog: James Joyce and a Decade of Experience

Posted on August 29, 2011 by robinaburrows

Once one of my college writing professors told me that my writing style was a lot like James Joyce. That’s funny because what I really wanted to do was write a fantasy or science fiction story. Our assignment was to write a (realistic) story about a child. I wrote a story about one of the characters … Continue reading »

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