Recent content by Judith Rook

I've read through this thread, and I’m impressed with the comments. It's a topic that appears frequently and, for me, never loses its interest. Before I began to write fiction, I never had a problem with the so-called “writer’s block”. I was a professional Arts journalist and my writing was...

The story begins in 1950s England. The scythe belongs to that world. The action moves into a similar parallel world within the multiverse. The sword belongs there. I thought that different sharpening techniques would help to define the different worlds but if, as you suggest, that would...

Although my name is not apparently mythic, and I chose it well before I discovered Mythic Scribes, it carries significance for its bearer. It is not, of course, my real name but "Rook" has been with me ever since I was brought up within hearing of a rookery and observed the birds' intelligent...

In an extended short story I am writing a character sharpens a scythe blade. Later on in the story he sharpens a sword blade. I would like to make the two sharpening techniques different, if that is possible. For example, would the strokes of the whetstone move away from the body in both...