I am reading this new online serial, The Refuge of Delayed Souls by Miladysa and it's bloody damn good. I am only up to chapter 30, but I highly recommend it. (This is partially untrue, I am actually much further ahead, but I started reading late in the story and now I'm making up the difference.) The story is oh-so-British to my ears (Irish as they are) and it produces a lovely Arthur Conan Doyle style lilt to the narrative. The chunks are bite sized, the characters are highly emotive and engaging.
Her style is something that I'd really love to learn to mimic, and possibly I will use it to help me determine how to write a little bit more emotively.
A lot of my supernatural writing does involve ghosts and hauntings; but more in a horror sense, rarely in the romantic heartbroken distance of the celestial bureaucracy—this work does that in spades. I especially like how it jumps back and forth between time periods to frame the narrative. It develops its story between past and present to compose the development of the characters.
It's a framing technique that I think deserves some experimentation.
Go check it out.
Prologue link, The Refuge of Delayed Souls by Miladysa
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I think you may have just cured my writer's block!
Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement Dear Kyt.
I figured that it was long past time for me to actually say something.
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