Narrative Conventions of the Seasons
Image Source: Grant Snider via Rob Bignell on Bluesky . Check out my new writer's profile on Bluesky ! I just signed up and found the above cartoon. Next, I saw an amazing photo of an albino squirrel, which resembles the main character in a fairy tale I'm writing: "The Keepers of the Dawn." That character is based on a white squirrel that lived next to a post office near me. Whenever I mailed a letter, he or she would scramble down toward me, and I began to consider the little animal as a talisman. What a moment of synchronicity to sign onto Bluesky for the first time, to be greeted by a white squirrel, exactly like the one in the story currently on my desk. Image Source: Artologica aka Michele Baks on Bluesky . This story is part of a series of children's books I'm creating which focus on the adventures of wild animals in Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, as well as wider parts of Eastern Ontario, the Ottawa Valley and Southwestern Quebec. 'Keepers' i...
